Author Question: Belgium has two official languages, French and Dutch. Assume that about 60 of the people use Dutch ... (Read 161 times)

robinn137 · **on:** Jul 24, 2018

Belgium has two official languages, French and Dutch. Assume that about 60 of the people use Dutch as their primary language and 40 of the people use French as their primary language. We are about to randomly select 3 Belgians. We wish to calculate the probability that the 3 people speak the same language. Explain how you would choose random digits to simulate this scenario.

Question 2

You plan to use a conservative margin of error of 2. How large a sample size do you need?
a. 100
b. 400
c. 2500
d. None of the above

bookworm410 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Generate random numbers between 1 and 5 . The 1, 2 and 3 will represent Dutch, the 4 and 5 will represent French. Each repetition will consist of 3 values. Any time we see all 1, 2, and 3's or only 4 and 5's, all people speak the same language.

Answer to Question 2

C