TABLE 2-6 A Sample of 200 Students at a Big-Ten University Was

question 39

Multiple Choice

TABLE 2-6
A sample of 200 students at a Big-Ten university was taken after the midterm to ask them whether they went bar hopping the weekend before the midterm or spent the weekend studying, and whether they did well or poorly on the midterm. The following table contains the result.

-Referring to Table 2-6, if the sample is a good representation of the population, we can expect ________ percent of those who spent the weekend studying to do poorly on the midterm.

• A) 10
• B) 20
• C) 45
• D) 50

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