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xxviAcknowledgmentsWhat does it take to revise a successful book after four editions? Remarkable teamwork! With so many components to manage in a textbook revision, we are indebted to every member of the SPA 5e team for the time, energy, and passion they have invested in making our collective vision for Statistics and Probability with Applications, Fifth Edition, a reality over the past 24 months.We are thankful for High School Program Director, Yolanda Cassio, and our Senior Program Manager, Raj Desai, who provided valuable guidance and encouragement from Day 1 of the revision process. It has been great getting to know you both as we worked on SPA 5e.To our developmental editor and long-time team captain, Ann Heath, we offer our utmost gratitude. Ann has an uncanny knack for troubleshooting thorny issues with just the right blend of directness and finesse. She helped assembled an all-star cast to collaborate on SPA5e and trusted each of us to deliver an excellent finished product. We hope you%u2019ll agree that the results speak for themselves. She also helped to develop the new %u201cSee Yourself in Stats%u201d feature at the end of each chapter. Thank you, Ann, for your unwavering support, patience, and friendship throughout the production of this edition.Lisa Samols, Justin Perry, Michael Emig, Jodi Isman, and Hanna Squire took on the laborious task of building our new Achieve digital platform and overseeing the creation of the student and teacher ebooks. For the countless hours that they invested sweating the details, we offer our sincere appreciation.We are deeply grateful to Diana Blume and Jerilyn DiCarlo for their aesthetic contributions to the eyecatching design of SPA 5e. Jill Hobbs did a superb job copyediting a very complex manuscript. Our heartfelt thanks also go to Aravinda Doss for her skillful oversight of the production process. Thank you to the Lumina team who did excellent work laying out the pages in a thoughtful and efficient manner.A special thank you goes to our good friends on the high school sales and marketing staff at Bedford, Freeman, and Worth (BFW) Publishers. We feel blessedto have such enthusiastic professionals on our extended team. In particular, we want to thank our chief cheerleaders, Thomas Menna and Brianna DiGeronimo, for their willingness to promote Statistics and Probability with Applications at every opportunity and their creative leader, Janie Pierce-Bratcher. We are also grateful to Jennifer Cawsey, Nicole Sheppard, Cassidy Kulongoski, and the small but mighty BFW sales teams who continue to impress and amaze us with their knowledge and tenacity.We cannot say enough about the members of our Content Advisory Board and Program Resource Team. This is a remarkable group of statistics educators! We%u2019ll start with Ann Cannon, who reviewed the statistical content of every chapter. Ann also checked the solutions to every exercise in the book. What a task! More than that, Ann offered us sage advice about virtually everything between the covers of this book. We are so grateful to Ann for all that she has done to enhance the quality of Statistics and Probability with Applications.Doug Tyson and Erica Chauvet have made an impact on the SPA 5e project from start to finish. The importance of Doug%u2019s work in refining the Teacher%u2019s Editionand corresponding Teachers%u2019 Resource Materials cannot be overstated. These are incredibly useful resources that will make teaching this course a pleasurable and successful experience for both new and experienced teachers. Thank you, Doug.Erica is the mastermind behind our entire assessment and solutions program. She wrote the solutions for every exercise, Your Turn, Stats Applied!, and chapter project. Erica also revised and enhanced all of the prepared quizzes and tests, revamped the Test Bank, and overhauled our online homework program in the Achieve digital platform%u2014while leading a team of contributors. All of that work requires careful attention to detail and accuracy checking. We are grateful to Kathy Dickensheets for supporting Erica by reviewing and accuracy checking the assessments. We are also indebted to Kathy, Nicolas Simonetti, Tom Rothery, and Jennifer Coltellino for working with Erica to develop the outstanding homework questions with detailed guided feedback in Achieve.Thank you to James Bush, who recruited, coordinated, and proofed the work of our stellar team of video presenters, in addition to recording videos himself. Our merry band of video talents includes Annemarie Alexander, Ashley Zarcaro, Bridget Matamoros, Dorothy Davis, Doug Tyson, Erica Chauvet, Evan Quinter, Joanna Lu, Joshua Sawyer, Michael Sanchez, Ricky Yip, SherriShaarbafan, and Vicki Greenberg. We feel incredibly fortunate to have such a creative, energetic, and talented team of statistics educators building these important resources for our program. We are confident that teachers %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.