document.write( "Question 471546: A researcher surveyed college students to study their opinion about the proposed change in smoking rules. The researcher asked a group of 20 students – 11 of them supported the change, 6 of them did not, and 3 had no opinion. This is not a binomial model because \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Note: The probability of x successes in n trials is: 
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document.write( "P = nCx*  where p and q are the probabilities of success and failure respectively. 
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document.write( "nCx = 
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document.write( "Above appropriate for use with a binomial model:\r
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document.write( "In this case p & q cannot be determined because some of the students surveyed
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document.write( "had no opinion and could not be counted in the numbers determining  p or q
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document.write( "and therefore this is not a binomial model \n" );
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