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book Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase cover

Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
book Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase cover

Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
Exercise 10
Critical Thinking For a binomial probability distribution, it is unusual for the number of successes to be less than µ 2.5 or greater than µ + 2.5.
(a) For a binomial experiment with 10 trials for which the probability of success on a single trial is 0.2, is it unusual to have more than live successes Explain.
(b) If you were simply guessing on a multiple-choice exam consisting of 10 questions with 5 possible responses for each question, would you be likely to get more than half of the questions correct Explain.
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(a) We are looking for unusual outcomes ...

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