Fifty percent of Americans believed the country was in recession, even though technically the economy had not shown two straight quarters of negative growth (Business Week, July 30, 2001). For a sample of 20 Americans. Compute the probability that at least 15 people believed that the country was in recession.
Solution :
Given
n= = 20
p = 50% = 0.5
X ~ Binomial distribution
probability that at least 15 people believed that the country was in recession is 0.0207

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