Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Review - Test - Page 357: 6a

Answer

It is not a binomial experiment.

Work Step by Step

It violates the first criterion, that is, the number of trials is not a fixed number. Also, suppose that the child does not get a yellow ball at first. Now, there are less balls of the other colors, so $P(success~second~trial)\ne P(success~first~trial)$. It violates the second criterion.
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