Exercise: Predicting Election Results
In this exercise, you will predict election results from a sample of randomly chosen people.
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Task
Consider an election where one million (1,000,000) people will vote.
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490,000 people will vote for Mr. Arthur
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510,000 people will vote for Mr. Ben.
One day before the election, a private company, Octavius, conducts a poll among 1000 randomly chosen voters.
Problem statement 1
Compute whether Octavius will predict the winner correctly using the approach explained above and print the answer. Voters of Arthur are identified by and those of Ben are identified by .
Use the choice
function to extract random values from the voter sample.
Set the value of
seed
to 2.
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