If you play roulettes and bet on 'red' the probability that you win is 18/38 = .4737. People often repeat this between several times. We can consider each time we play a 'trial' and consider it a success when we win, so p = 18/38 or (.4737) and q = 20/38   or (.5263). Suppose that Caryl always places the same bet when she plays roulette, $5 on 'red'. Caryl might play just once, or might play several times. She has a profit (having won $5 more times than she lost $5) if she wins more than half of the games she plays.   -when you play 401 times, p is the proportion of those 401 games that you win. You'll profit (winning more than you lose) if you win more than half of your bets p > .5000.     e) assume that the distribution of p is Normal and find the probability that Caryl will have a profit if she plays 401 times. show your work or calculator input and round your answer to four decimal places   f) twenty years ago, we didnt have the computing power in our hands to easily find the answer to part e) treating this as a binominal, but now your calulator can quickly do the calculations for you. Show your calulator input and answer (to four decimal places) as your binomcdf (to find the probability that Caryl profits when playing  401 times)

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If you play roulettes and bet on 'red' the probability that you win is 18/38 = .4737. People often repeat this between several times. We can consider each time we play a 'trial' and consider it a success when we win, so p = 18/38 or (.4737) and q = 20/38   or (.5263).

Suppose that Caryl always places the same bet when she plays roulette, $5 on 'red'. Caryl might play just once, or might play several times. She has a profit (having won $5 more times than she lost $5) if she wins more than half of the games she plays.

 

-when you play 401 times, p is the proportion of those 401 games that you win. You'll profit (winning more than you lose) if you win more than half of your bets p > .5000.

 

 

e) assume that the distribution of p is Normal and find the probability that Caryl will have a profit if she plays 401 times. show your work or calculator input and round your answer to four decimal places

 

f) twenty years ago, we didnt have the computing power in our hands to easily find the answer to part e) treating this as a binominal, but now your calulator can quickly do the calculations for you. Show your calulator input and answer (to four decimal places) as your binomcdf (to find the probability that Caryl profits when playing  401 times)

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