According to goverment data, the probability that an adult was never married is 19%. You randomly select 49 adults and ask if he or she were ever married. Decide whether you can use the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution. If so, find the mean and standard deviation. If not, explain why.
Given that, According to government data, the probability that an adult was never married is 19%. You randomly select 49 adults and ask if he or she were ever married.
Here, n = 49 and p = 0.19
np = 49 * 0.19 = 9.31 and n(1 - p) = 49 * (1 - 0.19) = 39.69
since n >30 and both np & n(1 - p) > 5,
we can very well use the normal distribution to approximate the
binomial distribution.
Mean = np = 49 * 0.19 = 9.31
standard deviation =
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