
Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.157LM
Given that x is a binomial random variable, compute p (x) for each of the following cases:
- a. n = 7, x = 3, p = .5
- b. n = 4, x = 3, p = .8
- c. n = 15, x = 1, p = .1
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