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Scrabble In the game of Scrabble, each player begins by drawing 7 tiles from a bag

containing 100 tiles. There are 42 vowels, 56 consonants, and 2 blank tiles in the bag. Cait chooses an SRS of 7 tiles. Let p^ be the proportion of vowels in her sample.

a. Is the 10% condition met in this case? Justify your answer.

b. Is the Large Counts condition met in this case? Justify your answer.

Short Answer

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a. Yes.

b. No, large count condition is not met.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

It is given that number of vowels is42and number of tiles are100.

02

Do 10% condition met in this case

Yes, it is met as7<10%of population size of100.

03

Do large count condition met

Population proportion is calculated as:

p=Population proportion=Number of vowelsNumber of tiles=42100=0.42

and n=7

Condition of normality is np≥10andn(1-p)≥10

Now, np=7(0.42)=2.94<10

and

n(1-p)=7(1-0.42)=4.06<10

Hence, large counts condition is not satisfied.

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