Statistics 1770 Lecture Notes - Magnet School, Contingency Table, Frequency Distribution
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An article in the winter 2003 issue of chance magazine on the houston. Of the 1755 qualified applicants, 931 were accepted, 298 were waist listed and 526 were turned away for lack of space. Find the relative frequency of distribution of the decisions made, and write a sentence describing it: 931/1755 = . 530, 298/1755 = . 170 , 526/1755 = . 30. Relative frequency is percentage of each category: among the 1755 qualified applicants, 53% were accepted, 17% were wait-listed and 30% were turned away due to lack of space. 517 applicants were black or hispanic, 292 asian, and 946 white. Summarize the relative frequency distribution of ethnicity with a sentence or two. total. A) what percentage of all applicants were asian: 292/1755 = . 17. B) what percentage of the students accepted were asian: 110/931. C) what percent of asian were accepted: 110/292. D) what percent of all students were accepted: 931/1755.
