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CAHSEE ELA 1.1 Writing Strategies. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would be the most effective introductory sentence?
CAHSEE ELA 1.2 Writing Strategies. Which of the following statements is supported by details or evidence from the student's draft?
CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies. What is the best way to combine sentences 10 and 11?
CAHSEE Math 3.4 Statistics, Data, and Probability I 363 Views
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Statistics, Data, and Probability I: Drill Set 3, Problem 4. How many different avatars can be created based on the given options?
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- 00:04
Here's a shmoopy question for ya...
- 00:07
To complete their profiles, users of a website are encouraged to
- 00:10
create a representation of themselves, or an avatar.
- 00:15
The following choices are given to each user:
- 00:19
How many different avatars can be created based on these options?
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- 00:23
Here are the potential answers:
- 00:30
So... this question is really testing whether we were awake in class the day
- 00:34
our teacher demonstrated the fundamental counting principle.
- 00:37
Basically it's saying that when we have choices, we just multiply them to get the
- 00:42
full suite of POSSIBLE choices in a set.
- 00:45
Consider a simple example: 3 geeks and 2 jocks.
- 00:49
They could pair in the following ways:
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These are all 6 ways that could possibly be constructed from a set of 3 choices and a
- 00:58
set of 2 choices -- 3 times 2 is 6 and... well, you get it.
- 01:02
Now we just need to do the same with all the... colors of the human rainbow provided.
- 01:07
So we just... multiply 'em.
- 01:10
We get 2 times 5 times 4 times 5 times 8... which gives us 1600.
- 01:15
And voila...it's answer D.
- 01:18
And now you can make the avatar to end all avatars.
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