SOLUTION: 5. Which of the following is not a binomial distribution and why? Justify your answer. 1. Tossing a fair quarter 10 times and looking at number of heads that shows up. Yes bec

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Question 601701: 5. Which of the following is not a binomial distribution and why? Justify your answer.
1. Tossing a fair quarter 10 times and looking at number of heads that shows up.
Yes because it is the same repeated trial.
2. Rolling a fair die 10 times and looking at the number of times we get six dots showing up.
Yes because it is the same repeated trial.
3. Rolling a fair die 10 times and keeping track of the numbers that are rolled.
4. Rolling 10 fair dice and looking at the number of dice that have 4 dots facing up.

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3. is not a binomial distribution because a binomial distribution requires exactly two possible outcomes (yes/no, succeed/fail, roll a 4/don't roll a 4, etc.).