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Find the mode for the stem-and-leaf plot shown below. |
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25 |
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59 |
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53 |
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52 |
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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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mean |
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mode |
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median |
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The KlipKlamp company manufactures paper clips with masses that are normally distributed with a mean of 2.5 grams and a standard deviation of 0.125 gram. What percent of the clips are more than 2.75 grams? |
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2.5% |
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5% |
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0.5% |
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16% |
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The letters a, b, c, and d will be used to form passwords for the school's computer system. How many 4-letter passwords may be formed if the letters can be used more than once in any password? |
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20 |
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16 |
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300 |
D. |
256 |
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5. |
Evaluate  |
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4,032 |
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6. |
How many different ways can the letters of ''OHIO'' be arranged? |
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48 |
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12 |
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24 |
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6 |
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A bag contains 7 blue marbles, 8 green marbles, 15 red marbles, and 10 yellow marbles. Find the probability of randomly drawing without replacement, a blue marble and then a red. |
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or about 0.2273 |
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or about 0.0656 |
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or about 0.0673 |
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or about 0.0438 |
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A box of crayons contains 8 blue, 9 red, and 13 yellow. Find the probability of first choosing a yellow, then a blue, and then another yellow crayon if there is no replacement. |
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3 cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing either 3 red cards or 3 face cards. |
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Susan forgot to study for her economics quiz. She guessed on all five true/false questions. Does this situation represent a binomial experiment? |
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Yes, because the questions are dependent and mutually inclusive. |
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Yes, because the answer is right or wrong. |
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Yes, because the trials are selected at random. |
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Yes, because each trial has exactly two outcomes; the probability of each trial is ; there are five trials and these are independent. |
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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 0.2344 |
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or about 0.0586 |
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or about 0.9375 |
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or about 0.4688 |
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In 1992, 92% of the people surveyed felt that professional athletes were overpaid. If the margin of error for the sampling was 3%, how many people were surveyed? |
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2944 |
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225 |
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736 |
D. |
327 |
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In baseball, a cycle occurs when someone hits a single, double, triple, and home run in the same game. Assuming that a player bats only four times in a game, how many different ways can someone hit for the cycle? |
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12 |
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24 |
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6 |
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256 |
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According to NFL statistics, the Cincinnati Bengals will lose 13 out of 16 games, regardless of opponent. What are the odds of Cincinnati losing a game? |
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3:13 |
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13:3 |
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13:16 |
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16:13 |
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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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cannot be determined |
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1 |
D. |
0 |
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One card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that it is either a black card or a face card? |
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Which of the following is an example of a continuous probability distribution? |
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the number of stars that are bright enough to see |
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the amount of time it takes to run a mile |
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the number of people who like chocolate ice cream |
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the rent for an apartment in a particular city |
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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 asking men |
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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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