• When an adult is randomly selected, there is a0.85 probability that this person knows whatTwitter is. Suppose we want to find theprobability that exactly three of five randomlyselected adults know of Twitter. Does thisprocedure result in a binomial distribution?

Givenprobability that person knows twitter(p)=0.85sample size(n)=5Let "x" be the selected adults…

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When an adult is randomly selected, there is a 0.85 probability that this person knows what Twitter is. Suppose we want to find the probability that exactly three of five randomly selected adults know of Twitter. Does this procedure result in a binomial distribution?