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renzo156

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Suppose that weight of adolescents is being studied by a health organization and that the
  accompanying tables describes the probability distribution for three randomly selected
  adolescents, where x is the number who are considered morbidly obese.
 
  Is it unusual to have no
  obese subjects among three randomly selected adolescents?
  x P(x)
  0 0.111
  1 0.215
  2 0.450
  3 0.224
  A) Yes B) No

Question 2

Sampling without replacement involves dependent events, so this would not be
  considered a binomial experiment. Explain the circumstances under which sampling
  without replacement could be considered independent and, thus, binomial.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

When the sample size is no more than 5 of the total population size.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

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