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Unit 4: Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions

Quick questions on Introducing statistics: random and non-random patterns - AP Statistics Unit 4

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What is q1?
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State what the law of large numbers does and does not promise. [2 points]
What is q2?
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A gambler says, "Red has come up five times, so black is due." What error is this? [1 point]
What is the gambler's fallacy?
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Independent trials have no memory; a run of one outcome does not make the other "due." The long-run balance comes from many future trials, not self-correction.

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