One Hundred Students Are Shown an Eight-Digit Number on a Piece

question 45

Multiple Choice

One hundred students are shown an eight-digit number on a piece of cardboard for three seconds and are asked to then recite the number from memory. The process is repeated until the student accurately recites the entire number from memory. The following histogi presents the number of trials it took each student to memorize the number.

How many students memorized the number in three trials or less?

• A) 3
• B) 14
• C) 87
• D) 13

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Study Breaks

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Study Habits

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