A school class of 150 students is driven in 4 buses to a theater. There are 44 students in one of the buses, 38 in another, 32 in the third bus, and 36 in the fourth bus. When the buses arrive, one of the 150 students is randomly chosen. Let X be the number of students that were on the bus taken by that randomly chosen student. What is the smallest possible value that X could take on?

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A school class of 150 students is driven in 4 buses to a theater. There are 44 students in one of the
buses, 38 in another, 32 in the third bus, and 36 in the fourth bus. When the buses arrive, one of the
150 students is randomly chosen. Let X be the number of students that were on the bus taken by
that randomly chosen student. What is the smallest possiblc valuc that X could take on?
О 32
O 38
O 36
Transcribed Image Text:A school class of 150 students is driven in 4 buses to a theater. There are 44 students in one of the buses, 38 in another, 32 in the third bus, and 36 in the fourth bus. When the buses arrive, one of the 150 students is randomly chosen. Let X be the number of students that were on the bus taken by that randomly chosen student. What is the smallest possiblc valuc that X could take on? О 32 O 38 O 36
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There are 44 students on the first bus, 38 on another, 32 on the third and 36 on the fourth bus.

Now out of the 150 students if one student is chosen at random.

 

 

X : number of students that were on the bus taken      by that randomly chosen student

 

 

To find : The smallest possible value that X could take on

 

 

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