Lock, Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, 2e Unit B, Review Exercise B.42 H

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Lock, Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, 2e Unit B, Review Exercise B.42 How Unlikely is Paul the Octopus's Success? In the 2010 World Cup, Paul the Octopus (in a German aquarium) became famous for being correct in all eight of the predictions it game, two containers of food (musses) were lowered into the containers were identical, except for country flags of the opposing teams, one on each container. whichever container ncluding predicting Spain over Germany in a semi-final match. Before each Poau ojessng ned his predicted winersPahave pychic power' In other words, i an 8 for 8 record significanty better than just guessing? Use Statkey or other technology to create a randomization distribution, Calculate a p-value. Round the p-value to three decimal places p-value For video of Paul go to the absolute tolerance is +/-0.002

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Since it is a case of binomial distribution the expected value or mean is defined as n*p which is 100*0.6=60

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