Suppose that 35% of all voters prefer Candidate A.If 8 people are chosen at random for a poll, what is the probability that exactly 6 of them favor CandidateA?

We have given that p = 35% = 0.35 n = 8 Here we will use binomial distribution The PMF of the…

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