SOLUTION: Mr. and Mrs. Doran have a genetic history such that the probability that a child being born to them with a certain trait is 2/5. If they have five children, what is the probability

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Question 1208629: Mr. and Mrs. Doran have a genetic history such that the probability that a child being born to them with a certain trait is 2/5. If they have five children, what is the probability that at least two of their five children will have that trait? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.
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We will use complementary counting. This means we want to find the probability that 0 or 1 of their children have the trait.
The probability of none of their children having the trait is , since the probability for an individual child is , and there are 5 of them.
The probability of exactly 1 of their children having the trait is . The probability of a child having the trait is , and the probability of the other 4 not having the trait is . The child with the trait could be any of the 5, so we multiply by 5 to account for that.
So in total, the probability of 0 or 1 of their children having the trait is , or 0.33696. Since that is the probability of there not being at least 2 children having the trait, the answer is 1-0.33696=0.66304, which rounds to 0.663.
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