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What is the upper quartile for the quiz scores? |
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17 |
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13 |
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20 |
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12 |
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A red number cube and a blue number cube are tossed. If each number cube is numbered 1 through 6, determine the probability of the red number cube showing a 4 and the blue number cube showing a 2. |
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A set of counters is numbered 1, 2, 3, …, 12. Suppose you draw one counter without looking. What is the probability of choosing a number less than 4? |
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Suppose you are conducting a survey to determine whether the students in your school would prefer to go to the science museum or the art museum for the school field trip. Which method would produce a random sample? |
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asking your 3 best friends |
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asking the members of the after-school art club |
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asking the winners of the school science fair |
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asking 4 students from each homeroom class |
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Jack and Thomas have two chips. One is red on both sides and one is red on one side and blue on the other side. Each boy tosses a chip. Jack scores one point if both chips are the same. Thomas scores one point if the chips are different. What is the probability that Jack will score a point? |
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Jack and Thomas have two chips. One is red on both sides and one is red on one side and blue on the other side. Each boy tosses a chip. Jack scores one point if both chips are the same. Thomas scores one point if the chips are different. Change the scoring so that the game is fair. |
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Jack scores 1 point if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 3 points if the chips are different. |
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Jack scores 2 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 2 points if the chips are different. |
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Jack scores 2 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 3 point if the chips are different. |
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Jack scores 3 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 2 points if the chips are different. |
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Taylor and Isabel played a game with red, blue, white, and green balls. They had a bag with 10 balls. They took 4 samples of 4 balls at a time. Sample 1: RRBB Sample 2: BGRR Sample 3: RWRB Sample 4: RGBW Find the best estimate of the number of blue balls in the bag. |
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3 |
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0 |
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6 |
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8 |
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What is the third quartile of this set of test scores? 63, 72, 74, 83, 91, 92, 95 |
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72 |
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70 |
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92 |
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93 |
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