At the Start of the Semester,a Professor Wants to Monitor

question 36

Multiple Choice

At the start of the semester,a professor wants to monitor students who miss class.The professor implements a new attendance policy geared toward encouraging students to attend class every day.There are currently 150 registered students in the class,and each day the class takes a quiz that is just used to measure attendance.The number of quizzes that are turned in will serve as the measure of attendance.The quizzes are given at every class period and the class meets four times per week over a 15-week semester.Suppose there were a total of 510 absences throughout this process.What is the average daily proportion absent?

• A).06
• B).85
• C).23
• D)None of the above

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