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Drawing Inferences About a Population

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Your English teacher is a huge William Faulkner fan and asks you to figure out which William Faulkner novel is most popular among the 110 students in your grade. You conduct a survey of random people in the hallway where your grade's lockers are and write down your results in the table below.

Favorite William Faulkner bookNumber of people
Absalom, Absalom!6
Light in August0
The Sound and the Fury1
Total7


Based on your data, what is the most popular William Faulkner novel for your grade?
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