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This Week’s MSA Item

MSA Items of the week can be used in a variety of ways by teachers, students, parents, tutors and other interested parties. They may be used as warm-up activity at the beginning of the class or as a review at the end of instruction. Students and parents can use them as an ongoing review to ensure that students have mastered and retained the content they are expected to learn.

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Monitoring Report for Mathematics Grade 6

MSA Item of the Week

This item is one of the many resources available in the Mathematics State Curriculum Toolkit.

Mathematics Grade 6

Reggie is bowling. In the last 50 throws of his bowling ball, Reggie makes a strike 18 times. Based on his last 50 throws, what is the experimental probability that Reggie will make a strike on his next throw?

  1. 0.09
  2. 0.18
  3. 0.27
  4. 0.36

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