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Whitefly Infestation Suppose that 10% of the fields in a given agricultural area are...

Whitefly Infestation Suppose that 10% of the fields in a given agricultural area are infested with the sweet potato whitefly. One hundred fields in this area are randomly selected and checked for whitefly.

a. What is the average number of fields sampled that are infested with whitefly?

b. Within what limits would you expect to find the number of infested fields, with probability approximately 95%?

c. What might you conclude if you found that x = 25 fields were infested? Is it possible that one of the characteristics of a binomial experiment is not satisfied in this experiment? Explain.

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