SOLUTION: all male jury of 12 peopke is chosen for a trial. The defense lawyer claims the jury must have been chosen in a biased manner because 50% of the city;s adult residents are women an
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Question 353975: all male jury of 12 peopke is chosen for a trial. The defense lawyer claims the jury must have been chosen in a biased manner because 50% of the city;s adult residents are women and yet jury contains no women. Assess the claim by answering the following:
If the jury were randomly chosen from the city's adult population , what is the probability that the jury would have a) no females, b) at least one female?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
all male jury of 12 peopke is chosen for a trial. The defense lawyer claims the jury must have been chosen in a biased manner because 50% of the city's adult residents are women and yet the jury contains no women. Assess the claim by answering the following:
If the jury were randomly chosen from the city's adult population , what is the probability that the jury would have
a) no females,
P(x = 0 of 12) = (1/2)^12 = 0.0002441
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b) at least one female?
P(at least one) = 1 - P(no female)
= 1 - 0.0002441
= 0.999756...
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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