Suppose It Is Known That 60% of Students at a Particular

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Short Answer

Suppose it is known that 60% of students at a particular university are smokers. A sample of 500 students from the university is selected at random. Approximate the probability that less than 280 of these students are smokers.

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Definitions:

Uvula

The part of the soft palate that hangs down in the back of the throat.

Prion

Infectious agents composed of protein in a misfolded form, which can cause rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders by inducing abnormal folding of specific normal proteins in the brain.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

A rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder that affects about one in every one million people per year worldwide.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

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