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CAHSEE Math 3.2 Statistics, Data, and Probability II 224 Views

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Statistics, Data, and Probability II Drill 3 Problem 2. Which two sports together make up for the preferences of more than half of all those who were polled?

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Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability 6 / Statistical data

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Here’s your shmoop du jour...
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Alright, we're back with Lavenia. She invited some people over to watch sports.
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She wasn’t anticipating a turn-out of 400
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people though. She's got a lot of friends.
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She took a poll that asked all 400 people

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what their favorite sport to watch on television was. The results are displayed in the graph below.
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Which two sports together make up for the
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preferences of more than half of all those who were polled?
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And here are the potential answers...
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We just have to go through the potential answers and figure out which combination of sports totals over 50%.
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And we get it right away – football at 35% plus basketball at 25% equals 60%...
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That's over 50…over half.
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Anyway, none of our other answer choices quite get us there.
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Our answer is A.
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As in, “All of you people get your butts out of my house!”
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