SOLUTION: 2. Based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the prevalence of diabetes among seniors (>65 years old) is 30%. You take out a simple random sample 15 senior adul

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Question 1102206: 2. Based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the prevalence of diabetes among seniors (>65 years old) is 30%. You take out a simple random sample 15 senior adults. Let X represent the number of individuals in the sample with diabetes.
a. Describe the distribution X.


b. What is the probability of seeing no diabetes case in this sample?

c. What is the probability of seeing one diabetes case?


d. What is the probability of seeing one or less diabetes case?


e. What is the probability of seeing at least two diabetes cases?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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p(no DM)=0.7
p(DM)=0.3
a. b(15, 0.3) for diabetes nCr p^(n-r)*(1-p)^(r)
b. This is 0.7^15=0.0047
c. This is 15*0.7^14*0.3=0.0305
d. One or 0 cases: sum of b and c or 0.0352.
e. At least 2 is 1-(1 or 0 cases, the complement), and that is 0.9648.