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panfilo · **on:** Aug 1, 2018

A baseball player has a batting average of 0.346, so the probability of a hit is 0.346. Assume that his hitting attempts are independent of each other.

Assume that the batter gets up to bat 4 times in each game. Estimate the probability that in 50 consecutive games, there are at least 45 games in which the batter gets at least one hit. (Hint: first find the probability that in one game the batter gets at least one hit)
A) 0.0643 B) 0.0918 C) 0.0446 D) 0.8171

Question 2

Compute the variance. Jeanne is currently taking college zoology. The instructor often gives quizzes. On the past five quizzes, Jeanne got the following scores:

15 20 1 15 19
A) 57.9 B) 46.4 C) 98.8 D) 58.0