Dropping a piece of buttered toast will theoretically land butter-side down with a probability of 0.65. Some students decided to test this theory and dropped five pieces of buttered toast. All five landed butter-side down. One of the students claims that the next piece of buttered toast dropped will land butter-side up because it is due to happen.
A study reported that about half of high school seniors study for upcoming math tests. To find out if this applies to seniors at Garfield High School, an SRS of 30 seniors was asked if they study for their math tests. Nineteen responded "Yes.”A dotplot is provided showing the results of 40 trials of this simulation.

Did you find these answers helpful?