SOLUTION: a) A city has four fire engines. For each fire engine the probability that it is available is 0.9. A fire accident happens somewhere in the city one Thursday afternoon. It is deter

Question 1183439: a) A city has four fire engines. For each fire engine the probability that it is available is 0.9. A fire accident happens somewhere in the city one Thursday afternoon. It is determined that fire engines will be needed:
(i) What is the chance that exactly 2 engines are available?
(ii) What is the probability that at least two of the engines are available?
(iii) What is the chance that none of the engines are available?

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A city has four fire engines. For each fire engine the probability that it is available is 0.9.
A fire accident happens somewhere in the city one Thursday afternoon.
It is determined that fire engines will be needed:
(i) What is the chance that exactly 2 engines are available?
(ii) What is the probability that at least two of the engines are available?
(iii) What is the chance that none of the engines are available?
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All three problems are the binomial distribution type of problems.

(i)   The number of trials n= 4; the probability of the success trial is 0.9,  and the number of success trials k = 2. 


          P =  =  = 0.0486  (rounded).     ANSWER



(ii)  The number of trials n= 4; the probability of the success trial is 0.9,  and the number of success trials k >= 2.


      We need calculate  P(n=4; k>=2; p=0.9).      


      To facilitate calculations, I use an appropriate online (free of charge) calculator at this web-site 

      https://stattrek.com/online-calculator/binomial.aspx


      It provides nice instructions  and  a convenient input and output for all relevant options/cases.


          P(n=4; k>=2; p=0.9) = 0.9963   (rounded).       ANSWER



(iii)  This probability is


          P =  =  = 0.0001.      ANSWER

Solved.     //     All questions are answered and explained.

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