For This Year's Mayoral Election, Voter Dissatisfaction Is Very High

question 121

Multiple Choice

For this year's mayoral election, voter dissatisfaction is very high. In a survey of 100 likely voters, 26 said they planned to write in an independent candidate rather than vote for the
Democrat or Republican candidate for mayor.
What is the probability that a surveyed voter plans to write in an independent candidate?

• A) 0.26
• B) 0.1
• C) 0.74
• D) 0.026

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where most values cluster around a central mean.

X-axis

The horizontal axis in a coordinate system, typically used to represent the independent variable in a graph.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the dataset into two halves.

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.