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About 60% of people in North America know how to swim. Use that statistic to answer
the questions below.
In a classroom with 40 people, how many do you expect to know how to swim?
In a school with 2,000 people, how many do you expect to know how to swim?
Are these numbers exactly how many people will know how to swim? Or just a prediction?
Each of these numbers is
how many people you can expect to know how to swim in each group.

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In this response, we explain how to calculate the expected number of people who know how to swim based on a given statistic for different group sizes.


Explanation:

60% of people in North America know how to swim. In a classroom with 40 people, you would expect 24 to know how to swim (40 x 0.6). In a school with 2,000 people, you would expect 1,200 to know how to swim (2000 x 0.6).

These numbers are predictions based on the given statistic. They represent the expected proportion of people who know how to swim in each group.


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