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Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
book Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase cover

Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
Exercise 35
General: Thumbtack Drop a thumbtack and observe how it lands.
(a) Describe how you could use a relative frequency to estimate the probability that a thumbtack will land with its flat side down.
(b) What is the sample space of outcomes for the thumbtack
(c) How would you make a probability assignment to this sample space if when you drop 500 tacks, 340 land flat side down
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