Supplementary Exercise 5.54 of IPS7e ------------------------------------ (a) The situation is a simple random sample of size 25 from a finite population of size 75. The sampling is without replacement, so it is not a binomial setting. Furthermore, the sampled fraction of the population is 25/75=0.3333 - so the guideline for approximation: the sampled fraction must be no larger than 0.05, or that the population must be at least 20 times as large as the sample, is clearly violated. (b) The situation is a simple random sample of size 500 from a huge population, so that the binomial distribution is a good approximation. Therefore, our model is a binomial B(500,p). Assuming p=0.002, the guideline for using the normal approximation for calculations of the B(n,p) on slide 5L-7: that n*p*(1-p)>10, is clearly violated because 500*0.002*0.998=0.998.