A popular Web site among college students is www.studentinfo.com. It lists infor

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A popular Web site among college students is www.studentinfo.com. It lists information about jobs both in the United States and abroad. The management of the Web site claims that half of all college students know about it. You do not quite believe this and think it is much less than half. You decide to ask a sample of 10 students if they know about the Web site. Out of the 10 students asked, only two had heard of the Web site. If the management of the Web site is correct about the proportion of all college students who know about the Web site, what is the distribution of the number of students who know about the Web site in a simple random sample of 10 students? N(5, 1.58) B(10, 0.5) B(10, 2) N(10, 0.5)

Explanation / Answer

This is binomail distributiion with n = 10 and p = 1/2 = 0.5

Option-B) B(10, 0.5)   

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