SOLUTION: A true-false test consisting of 20 questions can be marked in 1,048,576 different ways. In how many ways can each question be marked true or false so that
a) 7 are right and 13 ar
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Question 402680: A true-false test consisting of 20 questions can be marked in 1,048,576 different ways. In how many ways can each question be marked true or false so that
a) 7 are right and 13 are wrong
b) at least 17 are right?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A true-false test consisting of 20 questions can be marked in 1,048,576 different ways. In how many ways can each question be marked true or false so that
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Binomial Problem with n = 20 and p = 1/2
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a) 7 are right and 13 are wrong
P(x = 7) = 20C7(1/2)^20 = 77520/1048576 =0.0739
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b) at least 17 are right?
P(17<= x <=20) = 1 - binomcdf(20,0.5,16) = 0.001288
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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