Problem 114a

Given information

As per the given question, use the following information to answer the next eight exercises:

• The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA collected data from incoming first-time, full-time freshmen from four-year colleges and universities in the U.S.
• % of those students replied that, yes, they believe that same-sex couples should have the right to legal marital status.
• Suppose that you randomly pick eight first-time, full-time freshmen from the survey. You are interested in the number that believes that same sex-couples should have the right to legal marital status.

Step-by-step explanation

As per the given question,

• Let be the number of freshmen believing that same sex-couples should have the right to legal marital status.
• Hence the number of freshmen picked in the sample is .
• Since, the freshmen were asked regarding their belief on whether same sex marriages should/should not have the right to legal marital status, a freshman had two choices:-

                      1)If he answered a "yes", it is considered a success;

                      2) If he replied with a "no", it is considered a failure.