Finn read an article claiming that 50% of Americans have brown hair,
20% have black hair, 20% have blonde hair, and
10% have red hair. He wondered if the hair colors of students at his school followed this distribution, so he took a random sample of
50 students and recorded their hair colors. Here are his results:
Color Brown Black Blonde Red
Students
17 14 14 5
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