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Exercises: Understand Statistics as a Process for Making Inferences

Work through each section in order. For each scenario, read carefully and use the correct vocabulary (population, parameter, sample, statistic) and notation. Explain your reasoning where a written response is asked for.

Grade 10·21 problems·~40 min·Common Core Math - HS Statistics and Probability·group·hss-ic-a-1

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Recall / Warm-Up

A school district wants to know the true average number of hours of sleep per night for all 8,000 of its students. Which of these is the population?

All 8,000 students in the district

The 150 students who were actually surveyed

The average sleep computed from the survey

The true average sleep of all 8,000 students