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Jointly Distributed Random Variables : Binomial Distributions

Suppose that 25% of US males and 23% of US females never eat breakfast. Suppose a random sample of 250 men and 250 women is taken and polled about eating breakfast.
a) What is the probabilty that at least 110 of these 500 people never eat breakfast?
b) What is the probability that the number of women who never eat breakfast is at least as large as the number of men who never eat breakfast?

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