SOLUTION: If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction (glasses or contact lenses) and assume that enrolment in classes is random. What distribution would the numbe

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Question 988600: If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction (glasses or contact lenses) and assume that enrolment in classes is random.
What distribution would the number of students in a class of 40 that require vision correction follow and Why?
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If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction (glasses or contact lenses) and assume that enrolment in classes is random.
What distribution would the number of students in a class of 40 that require vision correction follow and Why?
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Binomial distribution.
Each student either does or does not need vision correction
p is the same for each student
independent samples
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Stan H.