A college requires all incoming freshmen to live on campus. The college has two female freshmen dormitories: Willams and Hillside. For an upcoming school, there are 800 incoming female freshmen. What best describes a method of assigning the incoming female freshmen to the two dormitories so that each incoming female freshman has a fair chance of being selected for either dormitory?

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Hazel Benjamin

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4 September, 11:20

A college requires all incoming freshmen to live on campus. The college has two female freshmen dormitories: Willams and Hillside. For an upcoming school, there are 800 incoming female freshmen. What best describes a method of assigning the incoming female freshmen to the two dormitories so that each incoming female freshman has a fair chance of being selected for either dormitory?

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Preston Dalton · Answer 1

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The simplest, but most tedious, approach would be to flip a fair coin for each of the 800 incoming female freshmen. That way, each freshman would have a 50-50 chance of being assigned to Williams. This works out to a 50-50 chance of being assigned to Hillside.