SOLUTION: Shavaonna is buying tulip bulbs to plant in her garden. In the catalog she sees a disclaimer that there is a 1/15 probability that a bulb will not flower. If shavonna orders 90 bu

Question 361789: Shavaonna is buying tulip bulbs to plant in her garden. In the catalog she sees a disclaimer that there is a 1/15 probability that a bulb will not flower.
If shavonna orders 90 bulbs, how many tulips wcan she expect to see in her garden?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Well, if she buys 90 bulbs, and the chance that they won't flower is 1 out of 15, that works out to 6 out of 90...
Thus she should expect 84 to bloom...
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