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About 11% of adult americans are left-handed. suppose that two people are randomly selected from this
population.
a. create a discrete probability distribution for the number of left-handed people in a sample of two randomly
selected adult americans.
b. what is the probability that at least one person in the sample is left-handed?

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Answer from: xonyemaa12

a) $P(X=0)=(2C0)(0.11)^0 (1-0.11)^{2-0}=0.7921$

$P(X=1)=(2C1)(0.11)^1 (1-0.11)^{2-1}=0.1958$

$P(X=2)=(2C2)(0.11)^2 (1-0.11)^{2-2}=0.0121$

And then we have our probability distribution like this:

X | 0 | 1 | 2 |

P(X) | 0.7921 | 0.1958 | 0.0121|

b) $P(X \geq 1) = P(X=1)+P(X=2) = 0.1958+0.0121=0.2079$

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

The binomial distribution is a "DISCRETE probability distribution that summarizes the probability that a value will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters. The assumptions for the binomial distribution are that there is only one outcome for each trial, each trial has the same probability of success, and each trial is mutually exclusive, or independent of each other".

Let X the random variable of interest, on this case we now that:

$X \sim Binom(n=20, p=0.48)$

The probability mass function for the Binomial distribution is given as:

$P(X)=(nCx)(p)^x (1-p)^{n-x}$

Where (nCx) means combinatory and it's given by this formula:

$nCx=\frac{n!}{(n-x)! x!}$

Solution for the problem

Part a

On this case since we select a sample size of n =2 we have the following values for the number of left handed X=0,1,2. We can find the probabilities for each case since we know that p=0.11.

$P(X=0)=(2C0)(0.11)^0 (1-0.11)^{2-0}=0.7921$

$P(X=1)=(2C1)(0.11)^1 (1-0.11)^{2-1}=0.1958$

$P(X=2)=(2C2)(0.11)^2 (1-0.11)^{2-2}=0.0121$

And then we have our probability distribution like this:

X | 0 | 1 | 2 |

P(X) | 0.7921 | 0.1958 | 0.0121|

Part b

For this case we want this probability:

$P(X \geq 1) = P(X=1)+P(X=2) = 0.1958+0.0121=0.2079$

Answer from: Quest

can you rephrase the question ? it is unclear : -)

step-by-step explanation:

Answer from: Quest

c. x=2.4cm

step-by-step explanation:

similar triangles are triangles which have the same shape but not the same size. this means their angle measures are equal but their side lengths are not instead they are proportional. to solve, we will set up a proportion and solve.

a proportion is two equal ratios set equal to each other. we form the ratios by finding corresponding sides (sides which match to each other on both triangles by their position). out ratios will be one side of the small triangle over the corresponding side on the big triangle as shown below:

$\frac{little}{big} =\frac{side mn}{side ab}=\frac{side on}{side cb}$ .

$\frac{0.96}{1.2}=\frac{x}{3}$

to solve the proportion, we'll cross multiply by multiplying numerator with denominator across the equal sign.

$0.96(3)=1.2(x)\\2.88=1.2x\\\frac{2.88}{1.2}=\frac{1.2x}{1.2} \\2.4=x$

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