Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Section 6.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 346: 57

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1) We want to know the number of successes after performing an experiment a certain number of times. This number must be fixed. 2) Each repetition is called a trial. The trials are independent from each other. 3) There are two possible outcomes: success or failure and $P(success~and~failure)=0$ 4) The probability of a success in the first trial is equal to the probability of success of any other trial.

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