Homework Help: Statistics

Posted by destiny on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:43am.

Suppose we want to determine the (binomial) probability (p) of getting 4 heads in 15 flips of a 2-sided coin. Using the Binomial Probabilities Table in Appendix B of the text, what values of n, x and p would we use to look up this probability, and what would be the probability?

Statistics - MathGuru, Friday, October 14, 2011 at 6:12pm
n = 15
x = 4
p = .5

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