Write the Word or Phrase That Best Completes Each Statement

question 343

Essay

Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
-To raise money, a group of three friends is each trying to sell 100 candles. Each friend has a packagecontaining the same number of tapers, votives, and tealights. The tapers sell for $6.00 each, the votives sellfor $1.50 each, and the tealights sell for $0.75 each. Maya sold all of the candles to raise $431.25, Lorrin soldall of the tapers and tealights to raise $378.75, while Sara sold all the votives, all the tealights, and half ofthe tapers to raise $251.25. How many of each type of candle did each package contain?

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Definitions:

Mean Weight

The average mass of an object or collection of objects, obtained by adding their weights together and dividing by the number of objects.

Two Tailed Test

A statistical test used to determine if there are differences in two directions, assessing the possibility of extreme outcomes in both tails of the distribution.

Test-statistic

A value calculated from sample data during hypothesis testing, used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Margin of Error

The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating the range within which the true population parameter is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence.