SOLUTION: Seventeen percent of the components manufactured by a certain process are defective. A component is chosen at random. Let X = 1 if the component is defective, and X = 0 otherwise.

SOLUTION: Seventeen percent of the components manufactured by a certain process are defective. A component is chosen at random. Let X = 1 if the component is defective, and X = 0 otherwise.

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Question 1069093: Seventeen percent of the components manufactured by a certain process are defective. A component is chosen at random. Let X = 1 if the component is defective, and X = 0 otherwise. What is the distribution of X?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x is a binomial with parameters n and p=0.17
mean is 0.17
variance is 0.17*0.83=0.1411
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