For high school students graduating in 2015, college admissions to the nations most selective schools were the
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For high school students graduating in 2015, college admissions to the nation’s most selective schools were the most competitive in memory. Harvard accepted about 5.3% of its applicants, Dartmouth 10%, and Penn 9.9%. Jorge has applied to all three. Assuming that he’s a typical applicant, he figures that his chances of getting into both Harvard and Dartmouth must be about 0.53%.
a) How has he arrived at this conclusion?
b) What additional assumption is he making?
c) Do you agree with his conclusion?
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ISBN: 9780134668420
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Authors: Richard D De Veaux, Paul F Velleman, David E Bock, Nick Horton
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