few_shots: 
Example 1:
Problem/activity:
You’re mixing ingredients for cookies. The recipe says to combine 6 tablespoons, or ¾ stick, of butter with 1 cup of sugar. You accidentally mix in a whole stick of butter (8 tablespoons) with the cup of sugar. How can you fix this?


Concept/skill: 
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

Answer: 
No. Usually problems that teach recognizing and representing proportional relationships between quantities involve deciding whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship or identifying the constant of proportionality, and then representing proportional relationships by equations or explaining proportional relationship using coordinate graphs.

Example 2:
Problem/activity:
For each pair of numbers, determine if the values are equivalent. Explain your reasoning for each one.
a.
$$-0.25$$
and
$$\frac{1}{-4}$$
b.
$$-\left ( \frac{1}{4} \right )$$
and
$$\frac{-1}{-4}$$
c.
$$\frac{-1}{4}$$
and
$$-\frac{1}{4}$$


Concept/skill: 
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.

Answer: 
No. The expressions shown in this problem do not involve multiplying fractions with other fractions, nor whole numbers with fractions.

Example 3:
Problem/activity:
Problem 1
The table below contains single equations in a single variable, single equations in two variables, and pairs of simultaneous equations in two variables. Check the appropriate box to show whether there is no solution, exactly 1 solution, or if there is an infinite number of solutions.
|                                                          | **           No solution          ** | **           Exactly 1 solution          ** | **           Infinite number of solutions          ** |
|----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                       $${9=4x+7}$$                       |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                       $${y=3y+5}$$                       |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                    $${y={x\over2}}$$                     |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|                     $${3x+6y-9=0}$$                      |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
|    $${x=y}$$                        $${1.25x=1.25y}$$    |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
| $${9.9=6x+8y}$$                        $${9x=2.5y-8.8}$$ |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
| $${11x-2y=1.5}$$                        $${11x-2y=2.5}$$ |                                      |                                             |                                                       |
Problem 2
Kim has a small container and a large container as shown.
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It takes 16 of the small containers to fill the large container. Three small containers leave 1.95 gallons of space in the big container.
What is the size of each of the two containers?


Concept/skill: 
Prove that, given a system of two equations in two variables, replacing one equation by the sum of that equation and a multiple of the other produces a system with the same solutions.

Answer: 
No. Completing neither of these problems requires replacing one equation by the sum of that equation and a multiple of the other equation.

Now, does the problem or activity shown below enable students to learn the full intent of the following concept or skill?

shot_info: fl_problem_000972_neg_0

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fl_problem_001097_neg_0

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fl_problem_001392_neg_0

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standard_description: Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population with an unknown characteristic of interest. Generate multiple samples (or simulated samples) of the same size to gauge the variation in estimates or predictions. For example, estimate the mean word length in a book by randomly sampling words from the book; predict the winner of a school election based on randomly sampled survey data. Gauge how far off the estimate or prediction might be.
problem_activity: Task
Background:
Researchers have questioned whether the traditional value of 98.6°F is correct for a typical body temperature for healthy adults. Suppose that you plan to estimate mean body temperature by recording the temperatures of the people in a random sample of 10 healthy adults and calculating the sample mean. How accurate can you expect that estimate to be? In this activity, you will develop a margin of error that will help you to answer this question.
Let's assume for now that body temperature for healthy adults follows a normal distribution with mean 98.6 degrees and standard deviation 0.7 degrees.  Here are the body temperatures for one random sample of 10 healthy adults from this population:
| 97.73 | 98.76 | 98.27 | 99.95 | 98.47 | 98.49 | 98.97 | 98.68 | 99.27 | 99.25 |
|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
What is the mean temperature for this sample?
If you were to take a different random sample of size 10, would you expect to get the same value for the sample mean? Explain.
Below is a dot plot of the sample mean body temperature for 100 different random samples of size 10 from a population where the mean temperature is 98.6 degrees.
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How many of the samples had sample means that were greater than 98.5 degrees and less than 98.7 degrees?
Based on the dot plot above, if you were to take a different random sample from the population, would you be surprised if you got a sample mean of 98.8 or greater? Explain why or why not.
Which of the following statements is appropriate based on the dot plot of sample means above?
Statement 1:Most random samples of size 10 from the population would result in a sample mean that is within 0.1 degrees of the value of the population mean (98.6).
Statement 2:Most random samples of size 10 from the population would result in a sample mean that is within 0.3 degrees of the value of the population mean (98.6).
Statement 3:Most random samples of size 10 from the population would result in a sample mean that is within 0.5 degrees of the value of the population mean (98.6).
The margin of error associated with an estimate of a population mean can be interpreted as the maximum likely difference between the estimate and the actual value of the population mean for a given sample size.
Explain why 0.45 degrees would be a reasonable estimate of the margin of error when using the sample mean from a random sample of size 10 to estimate the mean body temperature for the population described above.
If you were to use a random sample of size 20 to estimate the population mean, would you expect the estimate to be closer to or farther from the actual value of the population mean than if you had used a random sample of size 10? Would this mean that the margin of error would be less than or greater than the margin of error for a sample of size 10?
Below is a dot plot of the sample mean temperature for 100 different random samples of size 20 from a population with an actual mean temperature of 98.6 degrees. Explain how this dot plot supports your answer in part (g).
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Below is a comparative dot plot that shows sample means for 100 random samples for each of the sample sizes 10, 20, 40, and 100.
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What is a reasonable estimate of the margin of error for samples of size 20? For samples of size 40? For samples of size 100?
How is the margin of error related to sample size?
In practice, we don’t take many random samples from a population and we don’t know the actual value of the population mean, so we need a way to estimate the margin of error from a single sample.
An estimate of the margin of error based on a single random sample can be obtained by evaluating the following expression
estimated margin of error = \(2 {s \over \sqrt{n}}\)
where s is the sample standard deviation and n is the sample size.
Using the sample at the beginning of this activity, what is the estimated margin of error?
Suppose that a random sample of 50 healthy adults resulted in a sample mean body temperature of \( \overline{x} = 98.2\) degrees and a sample standard deviation of s = 0.65 degrees. Would you consider this evidence that the actual mean temperature for healthy adults is in fact less than 98.6 degrees? (Hint: what is the estimated margin of error?)


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