You Randomly Select 500 Students and Observe That 85 of Them

question 7

Multiple Choice

You randomly select 500 students and observe that 85 of them smoke. What is your estimate of the probability that a randomly selected student smokes?

• A)0.27
• B)0.5, because there are two possible outcomes for every student surveyed (smoke or don't smoke)
• C)0.17
• D)1.2

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