Estimate the Number of McDonald's Fries, Laid End-To-End, It Would

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Essay

Estimate the number of McDonald's fries, laid end-to-end, it would take to circumscribe
Earth.

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Definitions:

Continuity Correction

An adjustment made to a discrete distribution when approximating it by a continuous distribution, often used in binomial to normal distribution approximations.

Continuous Probability Curve

A curve that represents the distribution of a continuous random variable, indicating the probabilities of all possible values.

Continuity Correction

An adjustment made to a discrete distribution when approximating it to a continuous distribution.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that counts the number of successes in a fixed number of independent trials with the same probability of success.