SOLUTION: A bag contains 7 red marbles and 8 green marbles. Anne picks 3 marbles at random, with replacement, and observes the color of each marble. The number of green marbles, X, is a bino

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Question 1041068: A bag contains 7 red marbles and 8 green marbles. Anne picks 3 marbles at random, with replacement, and observes the color of each marble. The number of green marbles, X, is a binomial random variable. If we let success correspond to getting a green marble, what is the success probability, p? What is the number of trials?
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A bag contains 7 red marbles and 8 green marbles. Anne picks 3 marbles at random, with replacement, and observes the color of each marble. The number of green marbles, X, is a binomial random variable. If we let success correspond to getting a green marble, what is the success probability, p? What is the number of trials?
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p(green) = 8/15
n = 3
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Stan H.
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