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Title: As part of a statistics project, a 6th grade teacher brings to class a container with 300 red ...
Post by: savannahhooper on May 5, 2020

As part of a statistics project, a 6th grade teacher brings to class a container with 300 red marbles and 500 white marbles which are thoroughly mixed. To figure out how many marbles in the container are red without actually counting them all, a student randomly draws 40 marbles from the container. Of the 40 marbles drawn, 16 are red.

The sample consists of
◦ the 16 red marbles drawn by the student.
◦ the 800 marbles in the container.
◦ the 40 marbles drawn by the student.
◦ the 300 red marbles in the container.
◦ none of these

Title: As part of a statistics project, a 6th grade teacher brings to class a container with 300 red ...
Post by: amcvicar on May 5, 2020

the 40 marbles drawn by the student.