The chance of an IRS audit for a tax return with over $25,000 in income is about
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The chance of an IRS audit for a tax return with over $25,000 in income is about 2% per year. Suppose that 100 people with tax returns over $25,000 are randomly picked. We are interested in the number of people audited in one year. Use a Poisson distribution to anwer the following questions.
a. In words, define the random variable X.
b. List the values that X may take on.
c. Give the distribution of X. X ~.
d. How many are expected to be audited?
e. Find the probability that no one was audited.
f. Find the probability that at least three were audited.
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Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
ISBN: 978-0073521480
4th edition
Authors: David Doane, Lori Seward
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