SOLUTION: Suppose 40% of the restaurants in a certain part of a town are in violation of the health code. A health inspector randomly selects nine of the restaurants for inspection. (Round y

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Question 1118735: Suppose 40% of the restaurants in a certain part of a town are in violation of the health code. A health inspector randomly selects nine of the restaurants for inspection. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
(a) What is the probability that none of the restaurants are in violation of the health code?

(b) What is the probability that one of the restaurants is in violation of the health code?

(c) What is the probability that at least two of the restaurants are in violation of the health code?


Answer by ikleyn(52805)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Suppose 40% of the restaurants in a certain part of a town are in violation of the health code.
A health inspector randomly selects nine of the restaurants for inspection. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
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(a)  What is the probability that none of the restaurants are in violation of the health code?

     - According to the condition, the probability that one single concrete restaurant does not violate the code is 60% = 0.6.

       Hence, the probability that 9 of the restaurants  do not violate the code is   = 0.01 = 1%.
  


(b)  What is the probability that one of the restaurants is in violation of the health code?


     This probability is the complement to , which is the probability that all 9 of the restaurant do not violate the code

     (see the solution  (a)).
  

     So, the answer is  1 - 0.01 = 0.99 = 99%.



(c)  What is the probability that at least two of the restaurants are in violation of the health code?


     The complement event is that none of the 9 restaurants violates the code or there is exactly one 
     among the 9 restaurants which does violate the code.


     This probability of this complement event is  .

     Thus the probability under the question is   =  = 0.986 = 98.6%.


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