Open Up - Grade 7 - Mathematics - Unit 8 - Lesson 16

Tyler wonders what proportion of students at his school would dye their hair blue if their parents would let them. He surveyed a random sample of 10 students at his school, and 2 of them said they would. Kiran didn’t think Tyler’s estimate was very accurate, so he surveyed a random sample of 100 students, and 17 of them said they would.Based on Tyler's sample, estimate what proportion of the students would dye their hair blue.(Round to the nearest hundreth.)

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Tyler wonders what proportion of students at his school would dye their hair blue if their parents would let them. He surveyed a random sample of 10 students at his school, and 2 of them said they would. Kiran didn’t think Tyler’s estimate was very accurate, so he surveyed a random sample of 100 students, and 17 of them said they would.Based on Kiran's sample, estimate what proportion of the students would dye their hair blue.(Round to the nearest hundreth.)

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Tyler wonders what proportion of students at his school would dye their hair blue if their parents would let them. He surveyed a random sample of 10 students at his school, and 2 of them said they would. Kiran didn’t think Tyler’s estimate was very accurate, so he surveyed a random sample of 100 students, and 17 of them said they would.Whose estimate is more accurate? Explain how you know.

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Elena wants to know what proportion of people have cats as pets. Describe a process she could use to estimate an answer to her question.

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The science teacher gives daily homework. For a random sample of days throughout the year, the median number of problems is 5 and the IQR is 2. The Spanish teacher also gives daily homework. For a random sample of days throughout the year, the median number of problems is 10 and the IQR is 1. If you estimate the median number of science homework problems to be 5 and the median number of Spanish problems to be 10, which is more likely to be accurate?

• Spanish Estimate
• Science Estimate
• Both Estimates are even

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Diego wants to survey a sample of students at his school to learn about the percentage of students who are satisfied with the food in the cafeteria. He decides to go to the cafeteria on a Monday and ask the first 25 students who purchase a lunch at the cafeteria if they are satisfied with the food.Do you think this is a good way for Diego to select his sample?

• Yes Diego did a good job estimating
• No Diegos estimates are off.

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