50% of people in Whoville eat their bread with the butter side up, while the other 50% eat their bread with the butter side down. You pick 100 residents of Whoville at random. Rely on the central limit theorem to find the probability that less than 45 people in the sample eat their bread with the butter side down. 0.0455 0.50 0.3173 There is not enough information given to answer this question 0.1586

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2022-08-30

50% of people in Whoville eat their bread with the butter side up, while the other 50% eat their bread with the butter side down. You pick 100 residents of Whoville at random. Rely on the central limit theorem to find the probability that less than 45 people in the sample eat their bread with the butter side down.
0.0455
0.50
0.3173
There is not enough information given to answer this question
0.1586

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Solution:
We are given n = 100, p = probability that the person eats bread with butter down = 0.5
SInce the sample size n = 100 is large, number of success = n p = 100 0.5 = 50 and
the number of failures = n ( 1 p ) = 100 0.5 = 50 are both greater than 10, te assumptions of the central limit theorem are met, and we can use the central limit theorem to find the given probability.
Let X be the proportion of people in the sample who eat their bread with the butter side down, then mean = p = 0.5 and standard deviation [ ( 0.5 0.5 ) 100 ] = ( 0.0025 ) = 0.05
the probability to calculate can be written as:
P ( x < 0.45 ) = P ( X p p ( 1 p ) n < 0.45 p p ( 1 p ) n ) = P ( Z < 0.45 0.5 0.05 ) = P ( Z < 1 ) = 0.1586 from z-table

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