Question 976714: determine weather ot not the procedure described below results as in a binomial distribution. if it is not binomial, identify at least one requirement that is not satisfied.
five hundred different voters in a region with two major political parties, A and B, are randomly selected from the population of 7500 registered voters. Each is asked if he or she is a member of political party A.
A. Yes, the result is a binomial probability distribution.
B. No, there are more than two possible outcomes
C. No, the probability of success is not the same in all trials
D. No, the trials are not independent and the sample is more than 5% of the population
E. No, the number of trials is not fixed
any idea how to do this and what the outcome will be
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are two outcomes: either the person is a member of party A, or the member is not a member of party A
Each trial is independent with the same probability each time. So this is indeed a binomial distribution.
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