Author Question: When rolling a pair of fair dice, the probability of rolling a total point value of 7 is 0.17 . If ... (Read 227 times)

tatyanajohnson · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When rolling a pair of fair dice, the probability of rolling a total point value of 7 is 0.17 . If you rolled a pair of dice 1,000 times and the point value of 7 appeared 723 times, what would you probably conclude?

a. This is not so unlikely as to make you doubt the fairness of the dice.
b. Although not impossible, this outcome is so unlikely that the fairness of these dice is questionable.
c. Since the total point value of 7 has the highest probability of any event in the sampling distribution, this is an extremely likely outcome.
d. It is impossible for this to happen if the dice are fair.

Question 2

We create the sampling distribution of means from

a. a random sample of all possible means.
b. the region of rejection.
c. the z-distribution.
d. the underlying raw score population.