Properties of a Binomial Experiment

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• What are the four conditions that need to be satisfied for a binomial setting?
• What is the definition of a "success" in a binomial setting?
• If you are flipping a fair coin, does the percentage of heads approach 50% as the number of flips increases?
• If you flip one coin four times what is the probability of getting at least two tails?
• What is the theoretical probability of getting k heads from n coin flips?
• What is the expected standard deviation of a single coin flip, where heads = 1 and tails = 0?
• What is the probability that a fair coin lands on heads on 4 out of 5 flips?
• What is the probability of getting at least one tail if a fair coin is flipped three times?
• Wha are the four properties of a binomial probability distribution?
• In a carnival game, there are six identical boxes, one of which contains a prize. Is it appropriate to use the binomial probability distribution to find the probability that a contestant who plays the game five times wins exactly twice?
• What's the probability that the student will pass the exam by following her strategy?
• A fair coin is tossed. How likely is it to land half heads, half tails if it is tossed 10 times? 20 times?
• How do you read a cumulative binomial probability table?
• How do you find the mean variance, and standard deviation of the binomial distribution with #n= 70# and #p=.2#?
• What is the difference between binomial and normal distribution?