SOLUTION: A jewelery supplier has a supply of earrings which are 30% platinum. A store woner orders five sets of earrings from the supplier. If the supplier selects that paries of earrings

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Question 524470: A jewelery supplier has a supply of earrings which are 30% platinum. A store woner orders five sets of earrings from the supplier. If the supplier selects that paries of earrings at random, what is the chance that the jewelery store gets exacltly two sets of platinum pairs?
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A jewelry supplier has a supply of earrings which are 30% platinum. A store woner orders five sets of earrings from the supplier. If the supplier selects that ?? pairs of earrings at random, what is the chance that the jewelery store gets exactly two sets of platinum pairs?
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Binomial Problem with n = ?? and p = 0.3
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How many pairs were selected?
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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