Exercise 13-12: Solitaire

11-22, 11-23,

13-12,

15-3, 15-4, 15-14, 21-20, 27-18

Recall from Exercise 11-22 that author A has a 1/9

probability of winning a game of solitaire.

a.

How many games does author A have to play

before you can use the CLT to reasonably

approximate the sampling distribution of

the sample proportion of wins for author A?

Explain.

b.

Repeat part a for author B, who has a 1/6

probability of winning a game of solitaire.

c.

Suppose that author B beats author A 80%

of the time at a different card game. How

many games do they have to play for the

CLT to reasonably approximate the sampling

distribution of the sample proportion of wins

for author B? Explain.

 

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