Magnet schools revisited. The Chance magazine article described in Exercise 9 further examined the impact of an applicant's ethnicity on the likelihood of admission to the Houston Independent School District's magnet schools programs. Those data are summarized in the table below.
a) What percent of all applicants were Asian?
b) What percent of the students accepted were Asian?
c) What percent of Asians were accepted?
d) What percent of all students were accepted?
Exercise 9
Magnet schools. An article in the Winter 2003 issue of Chance magazine reported on the Houston Independent School District's magnet schools programs. Of the 1755 qualified applicants, 931 were accepted, 298 were wait-listed, and 526 were turned away for lack of space. Find the relative frequency distribution of the decisions made, and write a sentence describing it.