W a Science Teacher Wants to Provide Students with Practice

question 56

Multiple Choice

W A science teacher wants to provide students with practice in communicating. Which of the following would be the most suitable activity?

• A) Show a PowerPoint presentation of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens and engage the class in a discussion during the presentation.
• B) Set up an apparatus in which students explore the direction light rays take when passing through concave, convex, and plane lenses, and ask them to draw the paths.
• C) Ask students to write descriptions of the behavior of the gerbils in the class gerbil cage in response to loud sounds.
• D) Ask students to develop a time line of major events in the history of the earth.
• E) All of the above
• F) None of the above

Understand the concept of binomial probability and its approximation by the normal distribution.

Recognize the conditions under which the normal approximation to the binomial distribution is appropriate.

Calculate probabilities using the normal approximation to binomial distribution.

Determine when to apply continuity correction in normal approximation.

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Definitions:

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