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The table shows the sales of athletic footwear for a recent year. Which measure of central tendency is the greatest? |
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none |
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median |
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mean |
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mode |
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The number of calories for a serving of different brands of potato chips and tortilla chips is shown in the back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot below. Which statement is correct? |
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Most of the potato chip brands have less than 150 calories per serving. |
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Most of the tortilla chip brands have less than 150 calories per serving. |
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Potato chips and tortilla chips both have the same mean number of calories. |
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The data for potato chips and the data for tortilla chips have the same mode(s). |
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The machine that fills gallon milk jugs at a dairy dispenses the milk in amounts that are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 0.002 gallon. What percent of the jugs will get between 0.998 and 1.002 gallons of milk? |
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95% |
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99% |
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100% |
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68% |
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Which diagram illustrates all the different choices when spinning both spinners at the same time? |
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The letters from the word ''alert'' are used to form a password into a school computer system. How many 5-letter passwords can be formed if the letters can be used more than once? |
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120 |
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50 |
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625 |
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3125 |
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Evaluate  |
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4,032 |
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The calculus class is preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam. If there are 12 girls in a class of 20, how many study groups of 3 girls and 2 boys can be formed? |
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5670 |
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110 |
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8395 |
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6160 |
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Kim has 3 blue sweaters, 2 red sweaters, and 5 white sweaters in a dresser drawer. If she selects 3 sweaters at random with replacement, what is the probability she will select a red one first, white second, and blue third? |
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Bill has 4 quarters, 2 dimes, 6 nickels, and 8 pennies in his pocket. He takes one coin at random from the pocket. What is the probability that the coin is a dime or a nickel? |
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Two cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing either two jacks or two red cards. |
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As a captain of his football team, Julian called the coin toss for 6 football games. What is the probability that he won the coin toss 4 times and lost 2 times? |
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or about 0.9375 |
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or about 0.4688 |
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or about 0.0586 |
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or about 0.2344 |
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According to a survey of randomly selected adults who exercise regularly, 62% of the group said they run 40 minutes, 3 times a week. If the margin of error was 2%, how many people were surveyed? |
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2356 |
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380 |
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1178 |
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9424 |
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According to NFL statistics, the Cincinnati Bengals will be blown out in 5 out of 16 games, regardless of opponent. What are the odds of Cincinnati playing a close game? |
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11:16 |
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11:5 |
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16:5 |
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5:11 |
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Suppose the probability of success is x, and the probability of failure is y. What is x + y? |
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x + y |
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0 |
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1 |
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cannot be determined |
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Eddie flips a coin, rolls a die, and draws one card from a standard deck of 52. What is the probability that he turned up heads, rolled a prime number, and picked a king or queen? |
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0.019 |
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0.051 |
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0.038 |
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0.026 |
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Describe the set of data {33, 35, 38, 44, 45, 45, 46, 46, 46, 47}. |
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cannot be determined |
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negatively skewed |
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positively skewed |
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normal distribution |
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Suppose a mathematician has a probability of answering any math question correctly. What is the probability that he answers at least 2 out of 5 questions correctly? |
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0.99954 |
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0.00046 |
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0.00856 |
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0.0081 |
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In order to determine the preferred shampoo of women, 100 men were asked what kind of shampoo their wives used. Assuming that each knew for sure what their wives used, is this a random sample? If not, why is it not? |
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yes |
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no, because the study is only getting results about married women |
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no, because women change shampoo too frequently |
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no, because the study is asking men |
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