Question

Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises: The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA collected data from $203,967$incoming first-time, full-time freshmen from $270$four-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.

Construct the probability distribution function (PDF).

Short answer

We calculated the probability using the applet and the definition of variable $\mathrm{X}$.

Step-by-step solution

Given information

Number of trials is eight.

Number of success is$71.3\%$.

Calculation for probability