Ninety-four percent of Washington community college transfers feel that their community college adequately prepared them to handle upper-division coursework at their transfer university. We randomly survey 14 Washington community college transfers. We are interested in the number that feel that their community college adequately prepared them to handle upper division coursework at their transfer university. List the values that X, the Random Variable, may take on.

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Ninety-four percent of Washington community college transfers feel that their community college adequately prepared them to handle upper-division coursework at their transfer university. We randomly survey 14 Washington community college transfers. We are interested in the number that feel that their community college adequately prepared them to handle upper division coursework at their transfer university. List the values that X, the Random Variable, may take on.

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Let X be the number that feel that their community college adequately prepared them to handle upper division coursework at their transfer university. 

The probability of random variable X is  p= 0.94

n= 14 random sample of Washington community college transfers.

The random variable X has binomial distribution with parameters n= 14 and p= 0.94

X~B(n=14,p=0.94)

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