According to an article, 43% of adults have experienced a breakup at least once during the last 10 years. Of 9 randomly selected adults, find the probability that the number, X, who have experienced a breakup at least once during the last 10 years is
a. exactly five; at most five; at least five.
b. at least one; at most one.
c. between three and five, inclusive.
d. Determine the probability distribution of the random variable X.
Here, in this example we observed that the random variable x is the number of adults have experienced a breakup at least once during the last 10 years.
p = probability of success that is the adults have experienced a breakup at least once during the last 10 years = 43%=0.43
we are select 9 adults randomly i.e.n=9
Since x is dichotomous random variable and p is probability of adults experienced a breakup at least once during the last 10 year remain constant . Therefore x follow the Binomial Distribution with n=9 and p= 0.43.
The probability mass function of random variable x is:
P( X = x) =nCx px q(n-x). ,X=0,1,2,...9 , p+q= 1
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