For high school students graduating in 2005, college admissions to the nation's most selective schools were the most competitive im memory. Harvard accepted about 9% of its appplicants, Stanford 10% and Penn 16%. George has applied to all three. Assuming that he's a typical applicant, he figures that his chances of getting into both Harvard and Stanford must be about 0.09%.
How has he arrived at this conlcusion?
What assumption is he making?
Do you agree with his conclusion?

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For high school students graduating in 2005, college admissions to the nation's most selective schools were the most competitive im memory. Harvard accepted about 9% of its appplicants, Stanford 10% and Penn 16%. George has applied to all three. Assuming that he's a typical applicant, he figures that his chances of getting into both Harvard and Stanford must be about 0.09%.
How has he arrived at this conlcusion?
What assumption is he making?
Do you agree with his conclusion?

anonymous · Answer

This is for AP Stats and I'm not sure how to go about doing it but it deals with probabilities because that is the unit i've been working on.