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Jessica Johnson is running for mayor of a small city in Florida. She needs at least 51% of the votes to win.

Her campaign wanted to make a prediction about whether or not she will win. She hires ten polisters to each
ask 100 randomly selected voters if they will vote for her. The pollsters' results are below.
Poll number
1
2
3
4
5
Yes votes
51
68
58
43
65
Poll number
6
7
8
9
10
Yes votes
56
45
59
71
63
Use this information to correctly complete the statement below. From the drop-down menus, select a
prediction and the best justification for that prediction based on the data.
Jessica should predict that she will
because

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Answer:

I dont really know if i understand the problem fully but i hope this is what you are looking for:

Explanation:

A prediction for yes votes you round all the results and add = 300 real answer: 285

Poll number: 50, real: 40

Yes votes (#2) 290, real: 294

In conclusion you get 300, 50, 290 I think.

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