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An experiment is to draw 1 card from a fair deck of playing cards.a) If you were to list the sample space, how many equally likely outcomes would it have? [a]b) Find the probability of getting a 10. Leave your answer as a fraction.  [b]c) Find the probability of not getting a club. Leave your answer as a fraction. [c]d) Find the probability of getting a heart. Leave your answer as a fraction. [d]e) Find the probability of getting a 10 or a diamond. Leave your answer as a fraction. [e]

Riley wants to find out the favorite sport of students in her elementary school. She decides to ask all of the players on the table tennis team about their favorite sport.  

Rationalize the denominator: Use sqrt(x) for  and root(x)(y) for .

A statistics student posts a link to an online survey on social media and asks “How much time do you spend on social networking sites?”. Of the 1045 who respond to the survey, 40% say between one to two hours. What kind of sampling method is this, and why is it bad? What kind of sampling method is this? Select True if the option is a sampling method used, and False if it is not used.  [a] The responses are from a population. [b] The responses are from self-selection. [c] The responses are from a voluntary response sample. [d] The responses are a census.   Why is this sampling method bad? Select True if the option is a reason the sampling method is bad, and False if it is not. [e] The general population may not be reflected in the responses. [f] It is too expensive. [g] It takes too long to answer. [h] Too many people may choose to not respond to the survey. [i] The question is worded in a way to get a specific response, or ‘loaded’.

What major discovery in the 1950s prompted the deinstitutionalization movement, however mental patients usually lacked resources to meet their needs in their communities, often returning to institutions.

 It has been reported that 9 % of phones manufactured by a certain company for a product launch did not meet the quality standards. An engineer needs at least one defective Phone so she can try to identify the problem(s). If she randomly selects 13 phones from a very large batch, what is the probability that she will get at least 1 that is defective? Is that probability high enough so that she can be reasonably sure of getting a defect for her work? Probability that at least one phone out of a sample of 13 is defective is (round to 4 decimal places). [a] Is the probability high enough so that she can be reasonably sure of getting a defect for her work? Type Yes or No in the box below.  [b]

A school put on a music program.  Adult tickets were sold for $6.00 each, and child tickets were sold for $1.50 each.  The school collected $1,542.00 from ticket sales.  If a total of 326 tickets were sold, how many were adult tickets and how many were child tickets? [a] adult tickets were sold. [b] child tickets were sold.

The table below shows the head size of 30 male soldiers in inches. The head size was measured by wrapping a tape measure around the solder’s head. Construct a stem plot for the head size data set. If a stem has no corresponding leaves, put a dash, like this – .     Stems Leaves 24 [a] 25 [b] 26 [c] 27 [d] 28 [e] 29 [f] 30 [g] 31 [h] 32 [i]  

This question is extra credit.  I will grade it after you turn in the test. Let’s calculate the standard deviation by hand for the following set of sample data. 5     14     1     1     4 First, calculate the mean: 

According to Bloomberg News, in 2011 the average annual salary for a player in the National Hockey League (NHL) were $760,000 and $1,800,000, although not necessarily in that order.  Which of these numbers, $760,000 and $1,800,000, is the mean and which is the median? Give a reason for your answer.