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Statistics, Data, and Probability II Drill 3 Problem 2. Which two sports together make up for the preferences of more than half of all those who were polled?
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- 00:03
Here’s your shmoop du jour...
- 00:05
Alright, we're back with Lavenia. She invited some people over to watch sports.
- 00:09
She wasn’t anticipating a turn-out of 400
- 00:11
people though. She's got a lot of friends.
- 00:14
She took a poll that asked all 400 people
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- 00:16
what their favorite sport to watch on television was. The results are displayed in the graph below.
- 00:23
Which two sports together make up for the
- 00:25
preferences of more than half of all those who were polled?
- 00:32
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:38
We just have to go through the potential answers and figure out which combination of sports totals over 50%.
- 00:48
And we get it right away – football at 35% plus basketball at 25% equals 60%...
- 00:54
That's over 50…over half.
- 00:57
Anyway, none of our other answer choices quite get us there.
- 01:00
Our answer is A.
- 01:01
As in, “All of you people get your butts out of my house!”
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