How can you tell if the information from a resource is information factual or opinion?

You can tell if the information is information, factual, or opinion by researching the information or see who created it. If the author states it usually you can conclude if its a fact or opinion. If you want to know if the information is correct you should always look it up and look for other sources that has the same thing.Another way to tell if the information is fact or opion is to reseach on the infomation given and use your checklist. Usually if the information is opinion the author will say something like "i think tom is 45 years old". While if the information is fact it will say something like"20 million people in the u.s are overweight" so you see that their are differnt ways of telling if the information is proper or not.