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Course: Statistics and probability?>?Unit 6
Lesson 3: Sampling methodsUsing probability to make fair decisions
Problem
Dan and his fiancee Alexa are at the New York Yankees baseball game, and they are discussing where to go on vacation this summer. Dan wants to go backpacking in Alaska, and Alexa wants to go surfing in Hawaii.
To help them make a fair decision, they will look up the exact number of fans that attended the baseball game, and then decide based on this number. At maximum capacity, the stadium holds about fans. (Assume there will be a minimum of fan in attendance.)
Match each method for choosing a vacation spot with the correct assessment of its fairness.
(Consider a system to be fair when the probabilities of each event are equal.)
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