Question 8.36

5. The table of random digits (Table 7.1, page 298) was produced by a random mechanism that gives each digit probability 0.1 of being a 0. What proportion of the first five lines in the table are 0s? This proportion is an estimate of the true probability, which in this case is known to be 0.1.

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The first five lines contain 200 digits, of which 21 are 0s. The proportion of 0s is (see the table on next page).