Use the Following Table to Answer the Question

question 25

Multiple Choice

Use the following table to answer the question. A random sample of college students was asked to respond to a survey about how they spend their free time on weekends. One question, summarized in the table below, asked each respondent to choose the one activity that they are most likely to participate in on a Saturday morning. The activity choices were homework, housework, outside employment, recreation, or other.

-If 20 babies are born, how often are there 8 or less male babies? Assume that the gender of a baby is a random event. Which of the following experiments would not simulate this situation?

• A)Roll a die twenty times. Designate a 1, 2, or 3 to mean "female" and a 4, 5, or 6 to mean "male."
• B)Flip a coin twenty times. Designate a head to mean "female" and a tail to mean "male."
• C)Choose the first twenty digits from a row in the random number table. Designate odd numbers to mean "female" and even numbers to mean "male."
• D)All of these will simulate the gender of twenty babies.

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