2025, Question 3 · Focus on Probability and Sampling Distributions · 4 points
Rock songs on a restaurant playlist
Find probabilities for one and two random songs, define and name the distribution of rock songs in an hour along with its mean, then find a probability and judge whether a result is unusual.
This exam had six free-response questions, each scored from 0 to 4. Its Question 6, the Investigative Task, is no longer part of the exam. The current exam has 4 free-response questions in 90 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
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