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Chapter 5: Q. 28 (page 313)
Ten percent of U.S. households contain or more people. You want to simulate choosing a household at random and recording 鈥淵es鈥� if it contains or more people. Which of these is a correct assignment of digits for this simulation?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e. None of these
The correct option is (b).
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Suppose this player attempts shots in a game and makes only of them. Does this provide convincing evidence that she is less than a shooter?
a. Yes, because () is less than
b. Yes, because she never made of her shots in the simulation.
c. No, because it is plausible (believable) that she would make or fewer shots by chance alone.
d. No, because the simulation was only repeated times.
e. No, because more than half of the simulated results were less than
Household size In government data, a household consists of all occupants of a dwelling unit. Choose an American household at random and count the number of people it contains. Here is the assignment of probabilities for the outcome. The probability of finding people in a household is the same as the probability of finding people.
a. What probability should replace 鈥�?鈥� in the table? Why?
b. Find the probability that the chosen household contains more than people.
A spinner has three equally sized regions: blue, red, and green. Jonny spins the spinner times and gets blues in a row. If he spins the spinner more times, how many more blues is he most likely to get?
Middle school values Researchers carried out a survey of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in Michigan. Students were asked whether good grades, athletic ability, or being popular was most important to them. The two-way table summarizes the survey data.
Suppose we select one of these students at random.
Suppose a loaded die has the following probability model:
If this die is thrown and the top face shows an odd number, what is the probability that the die shows a 1?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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