Salon.com reporter Ben Blatt analyzed the location of Waldo in the game in which you must find Waldo, a cartoon man who always wears a redand- white-striped sweater and hat, in a highly detailed illustration (2013). Blatt reported that “53 percent of the time Waldo is hiding within one of two 1.5-inch tall bands, one starting three inches from the bottom of the page and another one starting seven inches from the bottom, stretching across the spread.” One of Blatt’s colleagues used this trick to find Waldo more quickly than another colleague who did not have this information across 11 illustrations. 

a. What does the term probability refer to? What is the probability of finding Waldo in one of the two 1.5 inch bands that Blatt identified? 

b. What does the term proportion refer to? What is the proportion of Waldos in one of these two 1.5 inch bands?

c. What does the term percentage refer to? What is the percentage of Waldos in one of these two bands? 

d. Based on these data, do you have enough information to determine whether the Where’s Waldo? game is fixed? Why or why not? Blatt reported that the “probability of any two 1.5-inch bands containing at least 50 percent of all Waldo’s is remarkably slim, less than 0.3 percent.”