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Unit 5 Ratios
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reciprocal rates | two rates in which the quantities are compared in both orders |
| conversion rate | a rate determined from an equality between two quantities with different units |
| ratio | a quotient of two quanitities with the same units (how many times larger one number is compared to another) |
| tax rate | the ratio of the tax amount to the selling price |
| discount rate | ratio of the discount to the original price |
| outcome | the possiblities or results of an experiment |
| event | a set of outcomes |
| probability | a number from 0 to 1 that measures how likely it is that the event will happen |
| probability distributions | the set of ordered pairs of coutcomes and their probabilities |
| unbiased | fair |
| conditional probability | the probability that an event will occur given that another event has occurred |
| complementary events | two events that have no elements in common, but together they contain all possible outcomes |
| odds of an event occurring | the ratio of the probability that the event will occur to the probability that the event will not occur |