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The Practice of Statistics for AP
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The Practice of Statistics for AP

The Practice of Statistics for AP

Book edition 4th
Author(s) David Moore,Daren Starnes,Dan Yates
Pages 809 pages
ISBN 9781319113339

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The solutions also deals with the percentages of email spam and the email failing

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Step 1: The percentage of email spam

19+20+7+7+25+9=93

Step 2: The percentage of emails failing 

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