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A pond contains two kinds of fish, trout and bass, of which 20% are bass and 80% are trout. If you catch 5 fish at random from this pond, which would you expect to catch?0 bass and 5 trout1 bass and 4 trout4 bass and 1 trout5 bass and 0 trout

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A pond contains two kinds of fish, trout and bass, of which 20% are bass and 80% are trout. If you catch 5 fish at random from this pond, which would you expect to catch?0 bass and 5 trout1 bass and 4 trout4 bass and 1 trout5 bass and 0 trout

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Given that the pond contains 20% bass and 80% trout, if you catch 5 fish at random, you would expect to catch 1 bass and 4 trout. This is because 20% of 5 is 1 (representing the bass) and 80% of 5 is 4 (representing the trout).

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