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Simulations

Question 9 • Probability and Statistics with Applications Honors Sem-2-FL-1210300 (2024-2025)

At West High School, 10% of the students participate in sports. A student wants to simulate the act of randomly selecting 20 students and counting the number of students in the sample who participate in sports. The student assigns the digits to the outcomes.0 = student participates in sports1–9 = student does not participate in sportsHere is a portion of a random number table.In the first trial, line 1, two of the 20 digits are zeros, meaning that two of the 20 selected students participate in sports. Starting at line 2 and using a new line for each trial, carry out 4 more trials to determine the number of students who participate in sports in random samples of size 20. In what proportion of all 5 trials do we find that 0 students participate in sports?

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Answer
A
0
B
0.2
C
0.4
D
0.6
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