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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

Which procedure produces a genuinely random sample of a school's students?

Surveying the first 30 students who walk into the cafeteria.

Assigning every student a number and using a random-number generator to pick 30 numbers.

Asking for volunteers to fill out an online form.

Surveying everyone in one homeroom class.