METHODOLOGY

The data obtained of a group of 50 students is through a google form and randomly shared to
50 students. Once the data is obtained, the sample for 20 students were chosen randomly by
using a random number generator on the internet. By going through the internet, I clicked the
repeat button to repeat the experiment for 10 times. The data obtained is tabulated as shown
below.

NO. L OR R NO. L OR R NO. L OR R NO. L OR R NO. L OR R

1 11 21 31 41
2 12 22 32 42
3 13 23 33 43
4 14 24 34 44
5 15 25 35 45
6 16 26 36 46
7 17 27 37 47
8 18 28 38 48
9 19 29 39 49
10 20 30 40 50

The criteria of this experiment are the number of observations (n) is fixed. Besides that, each
observation is independent and represents one of two outcomes (success or failure). The
experiment has satisfied the binomial distribution because the experiment consists of (n)
identical trials.

The mean of this experiment can be obtained by using the formula shown below.

∑ fx
Mean=
∑f

The mode of this experiment can be obtained by placing all numbers in a given set in order, this
can be form from lowest to highest or highest to lowest and then count how many times each
number appears in the set. The one that appears the most is the mode.
The median of this experiment can be obtained by determining if the number of values (n) is
even. Locate the two numbers in the middle of the data set then find the average of the two
middle numbers by adding them together and dividing the sum by two. The result of this average
is the median.

Based on the given data, the mean is higher than mode and median. I chose median by using the
measures of central tendency which shows the distribution is positively skewed.

The first part is stating the necessary conditions of which there are two. The number of trials
must be large which is more than 50 and the probability of success or failure must be close to
0.5. Alternatively, if both np and n(1-p) are larger than 5, then the probability of success or
failure condition can be disregarded.

The standard normal distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard
deviation of 1. Any point (x) from a normal distribution can be converted to the standard normal
distribution (z) with the formula shown below.

(x−mean)
z=
standard deviation

To ensure this, the quantity np and nq must be greater than 5 (np > 5 and nq > 5). The
approximation is better if they are both greater than or equal to 10. Then the binomial can be
approximated by the normal distribution with mean µ=np and standard deviation σ =√ npq.

In EXCEL, enter, in a blank cell,=BINOM.DIST(number_s,trials,probability_s,cumulative),

where the first argument is number of successes, the second probability of success (.5) and the
third indicates whether you want a cumulative probability (TRUE) or the probability of exactly
number_s successes (FALSE). The main difference between the binomial distribution and the
normal distribution is continuous.