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A teacher asks her students to write down the number of hours studied, rounded to the nearest half hour. She compiles the results and develops the probability distribution below for a randomly selected student. What is the mean of the probability distribution?Probability DistributionHours Studied: XProbability: P(X)0.50.0710.21.50.4620.22.50.07

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0.20
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0.46
C
0.85
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1.50
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A school conducts a recipe contest in which 1 student gets first place, 1 student gets second place, 1 student gets third place, and 10 students tie for fourth place. Fifty students enter the contest. If X represents the distribution of prizes, which graph represents the probability distribution for a randomly selected student?

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A probability distribution has prizes on the x-axis and probability on the y-axis. The probability of no prize is 0.73; 1st price is 0.01; 2nd price is 0.01; 3rd price is 0.01; 4th price is 0.2.
Option A
B
A probability distribution has prizes on the x-axis and probability on the y-axis. The probability of no prize is 36; 1st price is 1; 2nd price is1; 3rd price is 1; 4th price is 10.
Option B
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A probability distribution has prizes on the x-axis and probability on the y-axis. The probability of no prize is 0.8; 1st price is 0.01; 2nd price is 0.03; 3rd price is 0.05; 4th price is 0.08.
Option C
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A probability distribution has prizes on the x-axis and probability on the y-axis. The probability of no prize is 0.68; 1st price is 0.01; 2nd price is 0.03; 3rd price is 0.05; 4th price is 0.2.
Option D
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A project is graded on a scale of 1 to 5. If the random variable, X, is the project grade, what is the mean of the probability distribution below?

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0.2
B
0.4
C
1
D
3
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Which of the following probability distribution types has a mean, median, and mode that are all equal?

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constant
B
symmetric
C
positively skewed
D
negatively skewed
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The number of siblings each student at a softball game has is recorded. The graph below shows the probability distribution of having any number of siblings, X, for a randomly selected student. Which number of siblings is least likely?

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0 siblings
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3 siblings
C
4 siblings
D
5 siblings
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A spinner has two equal sections, one green and one orange. The spinner is spun three times, resulting in the sample space S = {GGG, GGO, GOG, OGG, GOO, OGO, OOG, OOO}. If the random variable X represents the number of times orange, O, is spun, which graph represents the probability distribution?

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A probability distribution is shown. The probability of 0 is 1; 1 is 3; 2 is 3; 3 is 1.
Option A
B
A probability distribution is shown. The probability of 0 is 0.13; 1 is 0.38; 2 is 0.38; 3 is 0.12.
Option B
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A probability distribution is shown. The probability of 0 is 0.12; 1 is 0.25; 2 is 0.5; 3 is 0.12.
Option C
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A probability distribution is shown. The probability of 0 is 0.12; 1 is 0.5; 2 is 0.25; 3 is 0.12.
Option D
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A spinner is divided into five sections numbered 1 through 5. Juana records the number the spinner lands on for each of 50 spins. She computes and graphs the relative frequencies for each number. Which of the following describes the probability distribution?

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constant
B
symmetric
C
negatively skewed
D
positively skewed
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A teacher assigns a score from 1 to 4 to each student project. The table below shows the probability distribution of the scores for a randomly selected student. Which score is most likely?Probability DistributionScore: XProbability: P(X)10.0620.2030.4840.26

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1
B
2
C
3
D
4
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Which of the following describes the probability distribution below?

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The mean is greater than the median, and the majority of the data points are to the left of the mean.
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The mean is greater than the median, and the majority of the data points are to the right of the mean.
C
The median is greater than the mean, and the majority of the data points are to the left of the mean.
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The median is greater than the mean, and the majority of the data points are to the right of the mean.
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A spinner contains four sections: red, blue, green, and yellow. Joaquin spins the spinner twice. The set of outcomes is given as S = {RB, RG, RY, RR, BR, BG, BY, BB, GR, GB, GY, GG, YR, YB, YG, YY}. If the random variable is “yellow (Y),” which of the following is the correct probability distribution?

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A 2-column table has 3 rows. The first column is labeled Yellow: x with entries 0, 1, 2. The second column is labeled Probability with entries 0.5625, 0.375, 0.0625.
Option A
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A 2-column table has 3 rows. The first column is labeled Yellow: x with entries 0, 1, 2. The second column is labeled Probability with entries 0.75, 0.25, 0.
Option B
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A 2-column table has 3 rows. The first column is labeled Yellow: x with entries 0, 1, 2. The second column is labeled Probability with entries 0.5, 0.375, 0.125.
Option C
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A 2-column table has 3 rows. The first column is labeled Yellow: x with entries 0, 1, 2. The second column is labeled Probability with entries 0.5, 0.25, 0.25.
Option D

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