In a Recent Survey, 84% of the Community Favored Building

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Essay

In a recent survey, 84% of the community favored building more parks in their neighborhood. You randomlyselect 19 citizens and ask each if he or she thinks the community needs more parks. Decide whether you canuse the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution. If so, find the mean and standarddeviation. If not, explain why.

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