Question

The National Vaccine Information Center estimates that 90% of Americans have had chickenpox by
the time they reach adulthood.
a. Is the use of the binomial distribution appropriate for calculating the probability that exactly 97 out
of 100 randomly sampled American adults had chickenpox during childhood?
b. Calculate the probability that exactly 97 out of 100 randomly sampled American adults had
chickenpox during childhood.
c. What is the probability that exactly 3 out of a new sample of 100 American adults have not had
chickenpox in their childhood?
d. What is the probability that at least 1 out of 10 randomly sampled American adults have had
chickenpox?
e. What is the probability that at most 3 out of 10 randomly sampled American adults have not had
chickenpox?
We now consider a random sample of 120 American adults.
f. How many people in this sample would you expect to have had chickenpox in their childhood?
And with what standard deviation?
g. Would you be surprised if there were 105 people who have had chickenpox in their childhood?
h. What is the probability that 105 or fewer people in this sample have had chickenpox in their
childhood? How does this probability relate to your answer to part (b)?

Answer 1

Answer:

Chickenpox, Part I. The National Vaccine Information Center estimates that 90% of Americans have had chickenpox by the time they reach adulthood.

(a) Suppose we take a random sample of 100 American adults. Is the use of the binomial distribution appropriate for calculating the probability that exactly 97 had chickenpox before they reached adulthood? Explain.

1. SRS

2. The number of trials is fixed to 100.

3. Either they had chickenpox or not.

4. We’re sticking with yes.

Calculate the probability that exactly 97 out of 100 randomly sampled American adults had chickenpox during childhood.

dbinom(97,100,.9)

## [1] 0.005891602

What is the probability that exactly 3 out of a new sample of 100 American adults have not had chickenpox in their childhood?

dbinom(3,100,0.1)

## [1] 0.005891602

What is the probability that at least 1 out of 10 randomly sampled American adults have had chickenpox?

1-dbinom(0,10,.9)

## [1] 1

What is the probability that at most 3 out of 10 randomly sampled American adults have not had chickenpox?

pbinom(3,10,.1)  

## [1] 0.9872048

Hope it helps,

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