In: Statistics and Probability
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, approximately 6% of U.S. children 4 years of age or younger have a food allergy. A day care program has capacity for 10 children in that age range. Assume that the children attending the day care program are independent. Let the random variable X be the number of children in this day care who have a food allergy.
1. Which distribution does X follow?
a. Normal distribution with mean 8 and variance 0.07
b. Binomial distribution with n = 10 and p = 0.94
c. Binomial distribution with n = 10 and p = 0.06
d. Poisson distribution with mean and variance 0.07
2. What are the approximate values of the mean and standard deviation of the distribution of X?
a. Mean = 0.08 and standard deviation = 0.0049
b. Mean = 0.60 and standard deviation = 0.7509
c. Mean = 0.60and standard deviation = 0.564
d. Mean = 0.56 and standard deviation = 0.7217
3. What is the probability that at most/best 4 children have a food allergy?
a. 0.9998
b. 0.9988
c. 0.1250
d. 0.0700
4. What is the probability that at least one of the ten children has a food allergy?
a. 0.8965
b. 0.5596
c. 0.4425
d. 0.4614
5. What is the probability P(X < 2)?
a. 0.9853
b. 0.8965
c. 0.8824
d. 0.8884