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Briefly define a binomial probability experiment and discuss its properties.

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A histogram is usually used to display which of the following characteristics for a quantitative variable?
 a. the shape of the distribution
  b. the spread or variability in the data
  c. the approximate center of the data
  d. the spread or variability in the data and the approximate center of the data
  e. all of these



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A binomial probability experiment is an experiment that is made up of repeated trials that possess the following properties:
(a) There are n repeated identical independent trials.
(b) Each trial has two possible outcomes (success, failure).
(c) P(success) = p, P(failure) = q and p + q = 1.
(d) The binomial random variable x is the count of the number of successful trials that occur; x may take on any integer value from zero to n.

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