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Statistics Homework # 13 Name Date A recent study involving patients who receive

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Statistics Homework # 13 Name Date A recent study involving patients who received a liver transplant after 1991 showed that 69 percent of living liver transplant patients still had the same donor liver. The files of files of sixteen living liver recipients were selected at random to see if each of the patients still had the same donor liver. NOTE: When you are writing percentages as a response to a question, write your answer as a decimal value. For example, 29% converted to decimal form looks like 0.29. 1. What is the question being asked? 2. What is 'n'? 19 points 19 points 3. What is 'p'? 19 points 4. What is 'q? 19 points 5. What is '? 19 points 6. Is this a binomial experiment? yes or no 5 points circle one

Explanation / Answer

1.

Wether each of the 16 selected recipitants still had donor liver

2.

n = 16

3.

p = 0.69

4.

q = 1-p = 0.31

5

r = 16

6.

Yes

As all 4 conditions are met

1: The number of observations n is fixed.

2: Each observation is independent.

3: Each observation represents one of two outcomes ("success" or "failure").

4: The probability of "success" p is the same for each outcome.