33) Voting The County Clerk in Essex, New Jersey, was supposed to use randomness to assign the order in which candidates’ names appeared on voting ballots. Among 41 different ballots, Democratic candidate names were placed on the first line 40 times. The probability of a result that high is 0.0000000000191. Assuming randomness was used, is the result of 40 Democratic candidate names being placed on the first line significantly low, significantly high, or neither?

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33) Voting The County Clerk in Essex, New Jersey, was supposed to use randomness to assign the order in which candidates’ names appeared on voting ballots. Among 41 different ballots, Democratic candidate names were placed on the first line 40 times. The probability of a result that high is 0.0000000000191. Assuming randomness was used, is the result of 40 Democratic candidate names being placed on the first line significantly low, significantly high, or neither?

 

 

35) Voting Repeat Exercise 33 after replacing 40 Democrats being placed on the first line of voting ballots with 14 Democrats being placed on the first line. The probability of getting a result as low as 14 is 0.029792.

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it is given that among the 41 ballots, in 40 ballots the first line name is of Democratic candidate and the probability of having such event is 0.0000000000191. 

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