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According to a Gallup poll, fifty-one percent of US adults oppose hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a means of increasing the production of natural gas and oil in the USA. You randomly select eight US adults. Find the probability that the number that oppose fracking for this purpose is
It is a case of Binomial distribution because the probability of an event is fixed , there are fixed number of trails and there are two events only,
the two events are opposing hydraulic fracturing and not opposing hydraulic fracturing