2025, Question 5 · Multi-Focus · 4 points

Number of bedrooms in new houses

Use a distribution of bedroom counts to find a probability and a mean, write hypotheses for a test about the mean, describe a Type I error, and use a confidence interval to reach the test's conclusion.

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.

1 Read the question

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