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Suppose you are doing a poll of various attitudes for students at your college. You are especially interested in having an accurate representative sample based on student's geographical home area within the United States. Suppose at your college, 45 hail from the Northeast, 30 originate from the Midwest, 15 are from the West, and 10 are from the South. If you are looking to have a sample of 200 individuals, who should be included in order to have a representative sample?
 
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Suppose you flip a fair coin five times. Which of the following combinations is most likely to occur? HHHHH HTHTH
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Northeast = 90; Midwest = 60; West = 30; South = 20

Answer to Question 2

Both outcomes are equally likely to occur. However, the gambler's fallacy makes us believe that there should be a certain pattern to results over the long run.


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