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kodithompson

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A bin contains 65 light bulbs of which 10 are defective. If 6 light bulbs are randomly selected from the bin with replacement, find the probability that all the bulbs selected are good ones.
 
  A) 0 B) 0.846 C) 0.424 D) 0.367

Question 2

A poll of 2000 randomly selected students in grades 6 through 8 was conducted and found that 37 enjoy playing sports. Would confidence in the results increase if the sample size were 3100 instead of 2000? Why or why not?
 
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Reply #1 on: Aug 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Yes. As the sample size increases, the sample statistics tend to vary less and they tend to be closer to the population parameter.


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