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1. The document discusses three examples involving probability distributions: a binomial distribution describing the probability of rolling at least one 5 in five dice rolls, a binomial distribution describing the probability of the number of children with blood type A out of four children, and a binomial distribution describing the probability of the proportion of students supporting a crackdown on underage drinking in a sample survey. 2. Key aspects of the examples include defining the sample size (n), probability of success (p), and using the binomial distribution to calculate probabilities and the expected mean. 3. For the student survey, the sample proportion is 140/200 = 0.7 but the data does not provide enough evidence to conclude the population proportion is higher than the

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Probability Distribution Homework Help1

1. The document discusses three examples involving probability distributions: a binomial distribution describing the probability of rolling at least one 5 in five dice rolls, a binomial distribution describing the probability of the number of children with blood type A out of four children, and a binomial distribution describing the probability of the proportion of students supporting a crackdown on underage drinking in a sample survey. 2. Key aspects of the examples include defining the sample size (n), probability of success (p), and using the binomial distribution to calculate probabilities and the expected mean. 3. For the student survey, the sample proportion is 140/200 = 0.7 but the data does not provide enough evidence to conclude the population proportion is higher than the

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Probability Distribution

1. Each entry in a table of random digits like Table B has probability 0.1 of being a 0, and digits are independent of each other. (a) What is the probability that a group of five digits from the table will contain at least one 5? What is occurring here? We are gathering a sample of five digits from table B. Now the distribution of table B consists of sample space{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} and as stated the probability of every value is 0.1. Thus this is an example of a discrete uniform distribution. n = 5, separate into two groups: contain a five, not a five. Success is a number is a five. 1. Sample size is fixed 2. Success: a number is a five, failure is a number is not a five. 3. The probability of success p is fixed at 0.1 throughout the sampling. 4. We have independence. The situation is binomial. Let X count number of numbers that equal five. P(X 1) = 0.40951 Excel: P(X 1) = 1 P(X = 0) = 1 binomdist(0,5,0.1,false) TI83/84 P(X 1) = 1 P(X = 0) = 1 binompdf(5,0.1,0) (b) What is the mean number of 5s in lines 40 digits long? The question translates to in a sample of 40, how many 5s would I expect to see? The answer is given by np = count; 40(0.1) = 4. 2. Children inherit their blood type from their parents, with probabilities that reflect the parents' genetic makeup. Children of Juan and Maria each have probability 1/4 of having blood type A and inherit independently of each other. Juan and Maria plan to have 4 children; let X be the number who have blood type A. (a) What are n and p in the binomial distribution of X?

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n = 4 p = 0.25. (b) Find the probability of each possible value of X, and draw a probability histogram for this distribution. {X| 0, 1, 2, 3, 4} I can use CrunchIt! Probability Histogram.

(c) Find the mean number of children with type A blood, and mark the location of the mean on your probability histogram. = 4(0.25) = 1

3. The Harvard College Alcohol Study finds that 67% of college students support efforts to "crack down on underage drinking." The study took a sample of almost 15,000 students, so the population proportion who support a crackdown is very close to p = 0.67. The administration of your college surveys an SRS of 200 students and finds that 140 support a crackdown on underage drinking.

(a) What is the sample proportion who support a crackdown on underage drinking? (b) If in fact the proportion of all students on your campus who support a crackdown is the same as the national 67%, what is the probability that the proportion in an SRS of 200 students is as large or larger than the result of the administrations sample? (c) A writer in the student paper says that support for a crackdown is higher on your campus than nationally. Write a short letter to the editor explaining why the survey does not support this conclusion.

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