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A young boy is fishing off the end of a dock. He estimates that for one out of every 15 times he ...

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Beheh:
A young boy is fishing off the end of a dock. He estimates that for one out of every 15 times he casts his line, he gets at least a nibble from a curious fish. He is going to cast his line 50 times before he switches to toad hunting.

Verify that this scenario satisfies all four conditions for a binomial scenario.

iceage:
We are counting the number of successes or failures—nibble on the line or not. We are assuming that 1/15 is the fixed probability of getting a nibble and that each cast is independent. We are testing out of 50 trials, our set number of trials.

BENJAMIN NAYDER:
thank you

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