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MirandaLo

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Which of the following statements is true for 6 tosses of a fair coin, where H = Heads and T = Tails?
 a. Sequences with all heads, like HHHHHH, are less likely than specific sequences with 3 heads and 3 tails, like HTHTHT.
  b. Sequences with all heads, like HHHHHH, are more likely than specific sequences with 3 heads and 3 tails, like HTHTHT.
  c. All specific sequences six letters long (made up of H's and T's), regardless of the number of H's and T's, are equally likely.
  d. None of the above.

Question 2

When creating a confidence interval for a proportion the conservative margin of error (studied in Chapter 5) and the margin of error found by taking 2 standard errors are closest to each other when
 a. the true proportion p is close to 0 .
  b. the true proportion p is close to 1 .
  c. the true proportion p is close to .5 .
  d. the true proportion p is close to the sample proportion .



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pocatato

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

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MirandaLo

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Excellent

 

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