Henrietta surveyed her high school classmates on their favorite subjects. She recorded their gender and favorite subject. She concluded that if she surveyed 500 male and 500 female high school students she would find a higher number of males that preferred history than the number of females that preferred math. Was she correct?

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Nyasia Farmer

Mathematics

21 March, 21:21

Henrietta surveyed her high school classmates on their favorite subjects. She recorded their gender and favorite subject. She concluded that if she surveyed 500 male and 500 female high school students she would find a higher number of males that preferred history than the number of females that preferred math. Was she correct?

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Alfred Young · Answer 1

No, because the relative frequency of males who like history is lower than the relative frequency of females who like math.

males prefer history =

7

29

7

29

* 500 ≈ 121

females prefer math =

6

24

6

24

* 500 = 125

Therefore, the number of females would be greater by 4.

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Roselyn Graves · Answer 2

Answer: No she was not correct because

Step-by-step explanation: Lets be honest no one really likes math that much