How Teenagers Listen to Music. For its Music 360 survey, Nielsen Co. asked teenagers and adults how each group has listened to music in the past 12 months. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. teenagers under the age of 18 say they use Google Inc.’s video-sharing site to listen to music and 35% of the teenagers said they use Pandora Media Inc.’s custom online radio service (The Wall Street Journal). Suppose 10 teenagers are selected randomly to be interviewed about how they listen to music.

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How Teenagers Listen to Music. For its Music 360 survey, Nielsen Co. asked teenagers and adults how each group has listened to music in the past 12 months. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. teenagers under the age of 18 say they use Google Inc.’s video-sharing site to listen to music and 35% of the teenagers said they use Pandora Media Inc.’s custom online radio service (The Wall Street Journal). Suppose 10 teenagers are selected randomly to be interviewed about how they listen to music. Is randomly selecting 10 teenagers and asking whether or not they use Pandora Media Inc.’s online service a binomial experiment

Answer:

Yes it is a binomial experiment

Step-by-step explanation:

Generally for an experiment to be binomial  

  • There must be two outcome on each trial
  • The probability of success must be constant
  • The outcome of each trial must be independent
  • The number of trial  must be fixed

Looking at the question given we that the experiment possesses these  characteristics of a binomial  experiment hence

Randomly selecting 10 teenagers and asking whether or not they use Pandora Media Inc.’s online service is a binomial  experiment