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Related Benchmark: MAFS.8.SP.1.4
Reporting Category: Statistics & Probability
Type: ETC: Editing Task Choice
Difficulty: N/A
Question:
The manager of an ice cream shop is considering which ice cream flavor to offer as the special flavor next month. She asks 175 people whether they like mint or strawberry ice cream.
The manager wants to increase sales, so she is deciding whether to offer mint or strawberry ice cream.
Complete the sentence to support the best decision based on the relative frequencies in the table.
The manager should offer _____ ice cream because _____ of the customers surveyed like mint and _____ of the customers like strawberry.
Possible Answer:
The manager should offer strawberry ice cream because 49% of the customers surveyed like mint and 60% of the customers like strawberry.
