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The graph shows the birth month of 100 famous Americans. What percent of these people have March as their birth month?
 
The graph shows the birth month of 100 famous Americans. What percent of these people have March as their birth month?
  
== Solution ==
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The data in the stem and leaf plot shown are the long jump distances, in centimeters, that the girls team of Pseudo H.S. made at practice today. <math>(51|1</math> represents <math>511</math> centimeters<math>.)</math> What is the sum of the median and mode of the data?
Filling out the chart, it becomes
 
  
<math> \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}\hline & Listen & Don't Listen & Total\\ \hline Males & 78 & 26 & 104\\ \hline Females & 58 & 38 & 96\\ \hline Total & 136 & 64 & 200\\ \hline\end{tabular} </math>
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\begin{tabular}{l|lllll}
 
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51& 1\\
Thus, the percentage of males surveyed that listen to the station is <math> 100 \cdot \frac{78}{104} \%= \boxed{\textbf{(E)}\ 75 \%} </math>.
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52&\\
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53& 2& 5\\
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54& 0& 2& 2& 5\\
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55& 0& 1& 3& 4& 7\\
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56& 0& 2& 5\\
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57& 0& 1\\
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\end{tabular}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
{{AMC8 box|year=2006|num-b=7|num-a=9}}
 
{{AMC8 box|year=2006|num-b=7|num-a=9}}
 
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Revision as of 21:33, 15 December 2022

The graph shows the birth month of 100 famous Americans. What percent of these people have March as their birth month?

The data in the stem and leaf plot shown are the long jump distances, in centimeters, that the girls team of Pseudo H.S. made at practice today. $(51|1$ represents $511$ centimeters$.)$ What is the sum of the median and mode of the data?

\begin{tabular}{l|lllll} 51& 1\\ 52&\\ 53& 2& 5\\ 54& 0& 2& 2& 5\\ 55& 0& 1& 3& 4& 7\\ 56& 0& 2& 5\\ 57& 0& 1\\ \end{tabular}

See Also

2006 AMC 8 (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
Preceded by
Problem 7
Followed by
Problem 9
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