SOLUTION: If You play a game in which your chance of winning is 40 percent. You play a total of 13 games. a)Find the probability of losing all 13 games. b)Find the probability of winn

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Question 1075567: If You play a game in which your chance of winning is 40 percent. You play a total of 13 games.
a)Find the probability of losing all 13 games.
b)Find the probability of winning exactly 5 games.
c)Find the probability of winning 5 or 6 games.
d)Find the probability of winning at least one game.
IS there a formula??????

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Yes,
where X is the number of wins.
Make up a chart using EXCEL or by hand.
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Here's my chart from EXCEL.
As a check the sum of the probabilities should equal 1.
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a)Losing 13 means winning 0.

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d) Winning 1 games means not losing all of them so use the complement of the answer to a).



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