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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by alaska and hawaii whenever either of

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them stays at a hotel there Never allowed to partake

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of the continental breakfast All right check out this math

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right there See alaskan lying there All right The map

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above shows the electoral votes for the western part of

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the united states Which of the following statements is true

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and new land I mean senator range Another one of

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those questions where there's only one truth teller and the

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other three answer choices are liars liars with their pants

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on fire No other way to approach a problem like

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this Then teo take them one by one And fact

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check him in order We'll start with option A mean

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number of electoral votes is the same as the median

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All right quick refresher on what those two words mean

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incase we in conveniently forgot I mean is the same

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as average where we total up all the values in

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a data set then divide them by the number of

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items The median is simply the middle of value in

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the data set when the values are arranged from high

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to low So to see if a is bogus or

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not we're gonna have to write out all the state's

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electoral votes starting with the small fries and going all

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the way up to the big cheese You must be

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getting close to lunchtime All right we'll hear those values

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started from low to high few threes couple for three

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five seven and nine a ten and eleven and a

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bingle fifty five try to keep the bragging to a

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venom of their california Totalling all these we get one

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hundred twenty for which divided by thirteen The number of

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states we just covered comes out to around nine and

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a half which is not a match for the media

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in which in this case is five So option a

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can take a flying leap into the pacific ocean What

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about beat Fifty percent of the state's have seven or

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fewer electoral votes Let's look back at our order list

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No way can easily see just by eyeballing the sucker

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that there are only a few states with more than

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seven votes while the clear majority has seven or fewer

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buil d fall short as well Art option b is

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the range of electoral votes Fifty eight Well the range

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is the difference between the smallest and the largest value

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In a data set in this instance the difference between

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fifty five and three fifty two not fifty eight Like

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the test question making their added and set us attracted

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just tricky The order of our answer D the correct

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answer is c The media number of electoral votes is

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five Well yeah we figured that out way back when

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you know when we eliminated off today so see it

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is we're hawaii and alaska They get hardly any electoral

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votes and they never get invited to any of the 00:02:49.065 --> [endTime] cool parties

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