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Fifty percent of students in your school own a bike. Of a sample of students in your school, the ratio of students who own a bike to students who do not own a bike is 4:8 does the sample closely estimate the percentage of students in your school who own a bike? Yes or no?

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The answer would be yes
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Answer:

Yes

Explanation:

If 4 is half of 8, and 50% is half of 100%, then 4:8 is an accurate ratio depecting that half the school owns a bike.

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