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Chapter 6 Problem 13E

Question

Problem 13E

An American Society of Investors survey found 30 percent of individual investors have used a discount broker. In a random sample of nine individuals, what is the probability:

a. Exactly two of the sampled individuals have used a discount broker?

b. Exactly four of them have used a discount broker?

c. None of them have used a discount broker?

Solution

Solution

Step 1 of 4

Given that 30% of the individual investors have used a discount broker

Then

And

Taken a random sample of 9 individual, then

Let X be the no.of individual used discount brokers

Here

The pmf of binomial distribution is


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Title Basic Statistics for Business and Economics  7 
Author Douglas Lind; William Marchal; Samuel Wathen
ISBN 9780077384470

An American Society of Investors survey found 30 percent

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