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Old 11-27-2007, 07:45 PM
asdfasdf32 asdfasdf32 is offline
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Default Re: Is my use of binomial distribution correct?

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1-7-21-35-35-21-7-1

128 total.

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That's only true if its a 50/50 proposition. Since I stipulated 52% in this problem I had to use binomial distribution to find out the weighted probabilities. For instance, if you could pick games correctly 99.99% of the time, hitting 0 of 7 would happen much less than 1 out of 128.
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