Use Probabilities to Make Fair Decisions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.6

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Common Core: High School - Statistics and Probability › Use Probabilities to Make Fair Decisions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.6

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Lauren has a computer programming assignment to create a random number generator that generates numbers on the interval .

Which of the following statements must be TRUE about the random number generator if it is fair?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:

They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coin is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:

They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coin is least fair according to the standard deviation?

Screen shot 2016 06 22 at 5.34.38 pm

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:

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They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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Referees at a professional football game need to choose a coin for the pre-game coin toss. Studies have shown that a fair coin possesses the following standard deviation:


They test five coins by flipping them one hundred times and noting how many times each lands on heads or tails. Which of the following coins is least fair according to the standard deviation?

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