Tabulation of a Strike Vote Showed That 90% of Those

question 125

Multiple Choice

Tabulation of a strike vote showed that 90% of those voting cast their ballot in favour of strike
Action. You take a sample of 50 voters. Assume this to be a binomial distribution.
What is the probability that fewer than 40 of your sample voters are in favour of strike action?

• A) 0.2594
• B) 0.4952
• C) 0.0048
• D) 0.0091

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

The first independent Protestant denomination to be founded by black people, established in Philadelphia in 1816.

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