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A cereal company hopes to increase its sales by putting prizes in randomly selected boxes of its lowest-selling

children's cereal. The company claims that the probability of getting a prize is 0.75.
Which is the correct interpretation of this probability?
This company expects to increase cereal sales by 75%.
There is a guarantee of getting 3 prizes when buying 4 boxes of this type of cereal.
In many, many boxes of cereal of this type, we can expect about 75% of the boxes to contain a prize.
The claim of this company is correct if exactly 75 out of 100 boxes of this type of cereal contain a prize.
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Answer:

C, In many, many boxes of cereal of this type, we can expect about 75% of the boxes to contain a prize.

Explanation:

All of them say "Expect", or "Exactly" other than this answer, but probability isn't Exact or Expected, so it is C.

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