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    22% said they watch the same amount and 8% said they watch more. Find the probability out of a randomly selected group of five that exactly three will say they watch less T.V. this year than last. a. Not binomial. b. N/A c. n=5 p=0.70 q=0.30 r: (0‚ 3.5) 2. There are 20 m&m’s candies in a dish. 8 are brown‚ three red‚ five green and four yellow. Two candies are picked from the dish at random. What is the probability that both are red? a. Binomial b. P(Success) = 6/20 = 3/10 P(Failure)

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    of the vocabulary of Mod. E. derives from OE. This applies particularly to our core vocabulary: common words in everyday use for fundamental concepts. Examples include the natural world (earth‚ sea‚ wind‚ fire‚ water; sun‚ moon‚ star); people (man‚ woman‚ child‚ father‚ mother‚ brother‚ daughter); the body (hand‚ arm‚ elbow‚ finger‚ foot‚ nose‚ mouth); and other basic concepts such as food‚ drink; heaven‚ hell; friend‚ neighbour; love‚ good‚ evil; hot‚ cold; after‚ over‚ under. However‚ not all words

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    Heritage In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”‚ Walker dramatizes the “use and misuse of the concept of heritage”. (Christian). The three main characters each have their own meaning of what heritage means to them. Some individuals embrace and build upon their heritage. However‚ others may choose to preserve it and move in a different direction. First‚ there is Dee. She sees heritage as an inferior stepping-stone. Dee returns home after being away at school with a whole new appearance. Dee is wearing

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    Probability Theory and Game of Chance Jingjing Xu April 24‚ 2012 I. INTRODUCTION Probability theory is the mathematical foundation of statistics‚ and it can be applied to many areas requiring large data analysis. Curiously‚ that the study on probability theory has its root in parlor games and gambling. In 17th century‚ dice gambling was a very common entertainment among the upper class. An

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    Both ‘’Hiroshima’’ and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb’’ were interesting works to read because they discuss two different views upon World War II. However‚ both works correlate to each other because at the end their message is simple: war inevitably causes death. Upon reading these works‚ I thought to myself how World War II is taught in the simplest form during history class in middle school. I never had a professor who explicitly went into detail of the horrors of World War II‚ therefore taking

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    deductive reasoning; granted‚ Science is practically statistics in and of itself through fabricating experimentations that require data collectivity‚ recapitulating information for the purpose of understanding something and pulling deductions through the use of the Scientific Method (i.e. formulating theories) through data collection. Sample Data Sample data basically is a subclass of populations such as humans‚ animals and even objects; it often goes as far as Physical Science and the Scientific Method

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    Probable Probability; Rolling Dice Statistics is based upon based upon common sense and logic‚ in a complex data. Probability is just one of the many topics in statistical mathematics. It is used in our daily life‚ all over the world. Even games‚ require taking a chance and using probability to determine the predicted outcomes. Probability is the measure of how often a particular event will happen if something is done repeatedly‚ (596 Webster’s Dictionary). You cannot determine

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    Bayes’ theorem describes the relationships that exist within an array of simple and conditional probabilities. For example: Suppose there is a certain disease randomly found in one-half of one percent (.005) of the general population. A certain clinical blood test is 99 percent (.99) effective in detecting the presence of this disease; that is‚ it will yield an accurate positive result in 99 percent of the cases where the disease is actually present. But it also yields false-positive results in 5

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    Suppose we take a random sample of size 100 from a discrete distribution in this manner: A green die and a red die are thrown simultaneously 100 times and let Xi denote the sum of the spots on the two dice on the ith throw‚ i = 1‚ 2‚...100. Find the probability that the sample mean number of spots on the two dice is less than 7.5. n = 100 µ = 7 µ[pic] = 7 σ = 2.41 σ[pic] = 2.41 /[pic] |X |2 |3 |4

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    Attempt to formulate your own definition of “Religious Education” In this essay I will attempt to answer the question‚ what is Religious Education? I feel that this question can be interpreted in many different ways‚ and by so many people. What I am going to try to do is explain what Religious Education means to me. Before beginning this course I could have answered this question in one or two sentences. It would have gone a bit like this‚ “Religious Education‚ or RE as it is more commonly known

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