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Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises: The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA collected data from 203,967incoming first-time, full-time freshmen from270four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. 71.3%of those students replied that, yes, they believe that same-sex couples should have the right to legal marital status. Suppose that you randomly pick eight first-time, full-time freshmen from the survey. You are interested in the number that believes that same sex-couples should have the right to legal marital status.

What values does the random variable Xtake on?

Short Answer

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The random variablesXhas values of0to8.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

Number of students replied is 71.3%.

Number of randomly picked full time freshmen for survey is eight.

02

Explanation

In binomial distribution Xvariables have,

Number of trials is eight

Possibility of success71.3%

So,

X~B(t,P)

X~B(8,0.713)

So the random variable has trial value of eight,

XRandom variable values is ,

X=(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

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