A drawer contains black socks and white socks. 80% of the socks are white socks. A number generator simulates randomly selecting 10 socks from the drawer. The number generator is used 10 times and the number of white socks in each trial is shown in the dot plot. Which description is correct about the number generator being fair or not? The number generator is not fair. In three experiments, it picked white socks 90% of the time.

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Valentin Reynolds

5 December, 22:08

A drawer contains black socks and white socks. 80% of the socks are white socks. A number generator simulates randomly selecting 10 socks from the drawer. The number generator is used 10 times and the number of white socks in each trial is shown in the dot plot. Which description is correct about the number generator being fair or not? The number generator is not fair. In three experiments, it picked white socks 90% of the time.

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Keira Hickman · Answer 1

Answer;

The generator was not fair.

Explanation;

The number generator is not fair. This is because the correct percentage of black socks was not chosen at all.