Question: 1. A marketer uses random digit dialing to call people and try to interest them in donating to a national charitable organization. From past experience,

1.A marketer uses random digit dialing to call people and try to interest them in donating to a national charitable organization. From past experience, she is successful on 2% of her calls. In a typical work day she makes 200 calls. Let X represent the number of calls on which she is successful.

A. Is X a binomial distribution? Explain.

B. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of X and provide an interpretation of the mean.

C. What is the probability that on any given day she has 0 successful calls? You can use Minitab.

2. Imagine a company with a large number of employees (e.g. over a thousand) from which it can choose someone for management training. Furthermore, half of these available employees are female. Since the management training program began, 10 employees have been selected and all were male. What is the probability that out of 10 selected 0 would be female if there was no gender bias in the selection process?

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