SOLUTION: 2) Among a department's 16 trucks, 5 emit excessive amount of smoke. If 8 of the trucks are randomly selected for inspection, what with that this sample will include none of the tr

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Question 192706: 2) Among a department's 16 trucks, 5 emit excessive amount of smoke. If 8 of the trucks are randomly selected for inspection, what with that this sample will include none of the trucks which emit excessive amount of smoke.?
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Among a department's 16 trucks, 5 emit excessive amount of smoke. If 8 of the trucks are randomly selected for inspection, what with that this sample will include none of the trucks which emit excessive amount of smoke.?
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5 smoke ; 11 don't smoke
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Ans: 11C8/16C8 = 0.01282...
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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