Question

Ten frequent gamers are randomly selected. The random variable represents the number of frequent gamers who play video games on their smartphones. For this to be a binomial experiment, what assumption needs to be made?

Answer 1

The event have only 2 outcomes and the number of trials are fixed. The other condition to be satisfied is given below:

For the experiment to be binomial, the probability that a gamer play video games on his/her smartphone must be same on all trials, that is the gamers chosen must be independent. The event that one gamer play video game on his/her smartphone must not have any impact on the probability of any other gamer playing the video game on is/her smartphone.