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    278 Chapter Discrete Probability Disibations Using the data from Example TIS-1 gives the Following i | —— ars 1 — ‘ ri ncLN? | iB lb 2 £ [BR | | jane | 3 " | ao ae To calculate the mean and standard deviation fora discrete random variable without using the formulas, modify the procedure to calculate the mean and standard deviation from grouped data (Chapter 3) by entering the x values into L, and the probabilities into Le Tver State Coo] [inugr State PG? 820427125 HE The Binomial Distribution ‘Many types of probability problems have only two outcomes or can be reduced to two ‘outcomes. For example, when a coin is tossed, it can land heads or tails. When a baby is, born, it will be either male or female. In a basketball game, a team either wins or loses. ‘Attrue/false item can be answered in only two ways, true or false, Other situations can be 5-20 Objective Find tho exact probability for X successes in tals of abinomial experiment In 1653, Blaise Pascal created a triangle of numbers called Pascal's triangle that ‘can be used in the binomial distribution, Section 8-3 The Binomial Disribaion 279 reduced to wo outeomes. For example, « medical treatment can be classified as effective or ineffective, depending on the results. A person can be classified as having normal or abnormal blood pressure, depending on the measure of the blood pressure gauge. A ‘multiple-choice question, even though there are four or five answer choices, ean be clas- sified as correct of incorrect. Situations like these are called binomial experiments, A binomial experiment is « probability experiment that satisfies the folowing four requirements: 1. There must be a fixed number of tral, 2. Each tril can have only two outcomes or outcomes that can be reduced to two utcomes. These outcomes can be considered as either success or faire, 8. The outcomes of each trial must be independent of ane another. 4. The probabiliy of a success must remain the same for each trial A binomial experiment and its results give rise to a special probability distribution called the binomial distribution. ‘The outcomes of a binomial experiment and the corresponding probabilities of these ‘outcomes are called a binomial distribution, In binomial experiments, the outcomes are usually classified as successes or failures. For example, the correct answer to a multiple-choice item can be classified as a success, but any of the other choices would be incorrect and hence classified as a failure. The notation that is commonly used for binomial experiments and the binomial distribution is defined now. eee ‘The symbol forthe probability of success P(F) The symbol for the probability of failure P ‘The numerical probability ofa success q ‘The numerical probability of a failure PS)=p and PUR)=1-p=q " ‘The number of tials X The numberof suecesses in m tials Note that 0 X

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