Suppose that polls suggest a candidate in a local school board election has 52% of the voters
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Suppose that polls suggest a candidate in a local school board election has 52% of the voters in favor of her as the candidate.
(a) Explain how you could use the integers from 1 to 100 to simulate votes.
(b) What proportion of the simulations resulted in less than a majority (less than 50%) of the ballots cast for the candidate?
(c) Repeat the simulation assuming 1000 ballots are cast for 20 simulations. What proportion of the simulations resulted in less than a majority of the ballots cast for the candidate? Explain what the result suggests.
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