You are preparing some sweet potato pie for your annual Thanksgiving feast. The store sells sweet...

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You are preparing some sweet potato pie for your annualThanksgiving feast. The store sells sweet potatoes in packages of6. From prior experience you have found that the package willcontain 0 spoiled sweet potatoes about 65% of the time, 1 spoiledsweet potato 25% of the time and 2 spoiled sweet potatoes the restof the time. Conduct a simulation to estimate the number ofpackages of sweet potatoes you need to purchase to have three dozen(36) unspoiled sweet potatoes.

Part 1 of 3: (6 pts)

Describe in detail and in paragraph form howyou will use the random numbers provided from a random number table(in part 2) to conduct 2 trials of this simulation. Be sure toinclude all of the first four steps of a simulation. Steps 5 and 6are part 2 and step 7 are part 3 of this question.

1. Identify the component to be repeated.

2. Explain how you will model the outcome.

3. Explain in detail how you will simulate the trial.

4. State clearly what the response variable is.

Part 2 of 3: (3 pts)

Use the random number table to complete 2 trials. Analyze yourresponse variable.

Trial#1:  41  23  19  98  75  08  63  29  10

Trial #2: 88 2695  69  57  71  02 6234

Part 3 of 3: (1 pt)

Give your conclusion based on your simulation results.

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ANSWERGiven thatGiven the following informationAs the question requires us to compute number of Packets thatneeds to Purchased so as to get 36 Unspoiled PotatoesA So the component that repeated over aperiod of time is Number of packets as only when a packet ispurchased then only we will able to    See Answer
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