Section 1-1 Lab Manual

Each member of the U.S. House of Representatives is selected, and their ages are recorded.

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At a movie theater, every seventh person who enters is selected. The heights of the selected individuals are recorded.

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From a football game with 80,000 spectators, 2000 are randomly chosen to participate in a survey.

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A national database includes the salary of all medical doctors in the U.S. From this database, the salaries of all orthopedic surgeons are recorded.

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The nurse for a school district randomly selects 16 male high school students and measures their weights.

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Southwest Airlines needs to plan how many flights to schedule from Chicago-Midway to LaGuardia for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend this year. The number of flights is based on the number of passengers on each flight between these two airports last year.

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In a survey of a sample of high school students, 42% said that they learned the most about handling money from their mother.

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Sixty-two of the 97 passengers aboard the Hindenburg survived the crash and subsequent explosion.

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In November of 2014, 58% of U.S. senators were Republicans.

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The mean number of pages for 20 randomly selected books from an elementary school reading program is 171.25.

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