SOLUTION: 15% of the population is right handed, how do you find the probability of surveying 80 students and getting exactly 6 right handed students? How do I set my equation up?

Question 1037972: 15% of the population is right handed, how do you find the probability of surveying 80 students and getting exactly 6 right handed students?
How do I set my equation up?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
80C6*(0.15)^6*(0.85^74)
How many ways to choose 6 from 80, and each of those 6 has a 15% probability; each of the 74 has an 85% probability. The expected value is 80%0.15 or 12, so this will be a small probability, both because the probability of each individual one is low and second because it is not near the expected value.
It is 0.0205
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