Answer to Question #301805 in Statistics and Probability for Loli

Question

explain why the following experiments are not binomial.

A. Rolling a die until a 6 appears.

B. Asking 20 people how old they are.

C. Drawing 5 cards from a deck for a poker hand.

Answer 1

A) it is not a fixed number of trials

B) it has more than two outcomes.

C) it is done without replacement, so not independent.