SOLUTION: according to the new york state society of anesthesiologists, 60% of operations performed in the united states today are done on an outpatient basis. (source journal of the america

Question 290152: according to the new york state society of anesthesiologists, 60% of operations performed in the united states today are done on an outpatient basis. (source journal of the american medical association) if six operations that were performed recently are randomly selected, find the probability that exactly three of them were performed on an outpatient basis?
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according to the new york state society of anesthesiologists, 60% of operations performed in the united states today are done on an outpatient basis. (source journal of the american medical association) if six operations that were performed recently are randomly selected, find the probability that exactly three of them were performed on an outpatient basis?
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Binomial Problem with n = 6 and p = 0.6
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P(x=3) = 6C3(0.6)^3*(0.7)^3 = 0.27648...
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