Casio fx-7400G manual Binomial

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Programming your calculator

BINOMIAL

Purpose

To simulate a binomial random variable, consisting of a number of trials each of which has the same probability of success. For example, tossing a set of 12 coins, each of which has a probability of 0.5 of landing 'heads', and counting how many of the twelve land heads each time.

Operation

Enter the probability of success each time, followed by .

Enter the number of trials involved, followed by .

Enter the number of separate simulations required, followed by . (A maximum of 255 is possible.)

For example, to simulate 50 separate sets of 12 tosses of a fair coin, enter:

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The program will store the numbers of heads in each set of trials into List 1. Any data already in List 1 will be lost.

You may like to use program FREQDIST to analyse the resulting data in List 1.

Notice that, in the above case, you usually don't get exactly six 'heads' out of twelve tosses.

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