SOLUTION: A customer receives a shipment of 10,000 fuses. He randomly samples three of the fuses and tests them. If any of the three are defective, he will return the shipment to the supplie

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Question 366800: A customer receives a shipment of 10,000 fuses. He randomly samples three of the fuses and tests them. If any of the three are defective, he will return the shipment to the supplier. If in fact 1000 of the fuses in the shipment are defective, what is the probability that he will return the shipment? Show all your work. Use the given, find, solution model
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


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What is the probability that all three are good?

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Therefore the probability that at least one is bad would be,


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