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1. In a poll, respondents were asked whether they had ever been in a car accident. 157 respondents indicated that they had been in a car accident and 117 respondents said that they had not been in a car accident. If one of these respondents is randomly selected, what is the probability of getting someone who has been in a car accident?

2. The data set represents the income levels of the members of a country club. Find the probability that a randomly selected member earns at least $88,000.

108,000 128,000 82,000 138,000 85,000 108,000 88,000 76,000 158,000 208,000
79,000 98,000 148,000 85,000 128,000 118,000 88,000 168,000 73,000 118,000

3. In a certain class of students, there are 12 boys from Wilmette, 3 girls from Kenilworth, 9 girls from Wilmette, 6 boys from Glencoe, 2 boys from Kenilworth and 6 girls from Glencoe. If the teacher calls upon a student to answer a question, what is the probability that the student will be from Kenilworth?

4. Find the probability of correctly answering the first 2 questions on a multiple choice test if random guesses are made and each question has 5 possible answers.

5. Of 1936 people who came into a blood bank to give blood, 200 people had high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure.

6. Last year, nine employees of an electronics company retired. Their ages at retirement are listed below. Find the mean retirement age.
57 62 62
55 66 58
65 50 50

7. A store manager kept track of the number of newspapers sold each week over a seven-week period. The results are shown below.

36 30 201 152 278 242 230

Find the median number of newspapers sold.

8. Last year, nine employees of an electronics company retired. Their ages at retirement are listed below.

52 65 67 51 50 64 68 58 56 Find the Mode

9. The amount of time (in hours) that Sam studied for an exam on each of the last five days is given below. Find the mean study time.

2.7 8.2 8.7 2.4 4.6

10. The distances (in miles) driven in the past week by each of a company's sales representatives are listed below.

45 70 242 268 452 490

Find the median distance driven.

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