SOLUTION: Cooper Manufacturing has a policy that it will reject a shipment of parts from its supplier if inspectors find any defective parts in a random sample of 6 parts from the shipment.

Question 945382: Cooper Manufacturing has a policy that it will reject a shipment of parts from its supplier if inspectors find any defective parts in a random sample of 6 parts from the shipment. The supplier has been in business many years and has a long-term defective rate for parts of 7.9%.
What is the probability that a shipment will be rejected after a given sample of parts is checked?

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Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the probability that the sample shipment will have no failures since one failure will cause you to reject the whole shipment.

That's the probability that the shipment will not be rejected so the complement is the probability that it will be rejected.

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