According to a poll, 60 percent of American adults prefer saving over spending. Let X = the number of American adults out of a random sample of 50 who prefer saving to spending.
- What is the probability distribution for X?
- Use your calculator to find the following probabilities:
- The probability that 25 adults in the sample prefer saving over spending
- The probability that at most 20 adults prefer saving
- The probability that more than 30 adults prefer saving
- Using the formulas, calculate the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation of X.
OpenStax Statistics, 4.3 Binomial Distribution (Optional), exercise 14