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: A student takes a 20-question, multiple-choice quiz with 5 choices for each question, find the probability of guessing at least 15 correct out of the 20. Would you consider this event likely or unlikely to occur? This question is from textbook elementary statistics

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A student takes a 20-question, multiple-choice quiz with 5 choices for each question, find the probability of guessing at least 15 correct out of the 20. Would you consider this event likely or unlikely to occur?

On your TI-83 or TI-84 calculator, type in

1-binomcdf(20,1/5,14)

and press ENTER.

You'll see  which means



or 

which is about 1 chance in 5.5 million.

So it's extremely unlikely.

Edwin


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