SOLUTION: A box of candy contains four orange and six cherry hot sticks. If three hot sticks are chosen at random from the box, what is the probability that no more than one will be cherry
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Question 533224: A box of candy contains four orange and six cherry hot sticks. If three hot sticks are chosen at random from the box, what is the probability that no more than one will be cherry? Round your answer to two decimal place.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A box of candy contains four orange and six cherry hot sticks. If three hot sticks are chosen at random from the box, what is the probability that no more than one will be cherry? Round your answer to two decimal place.
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Binomial with n = 3 and p(cherry) = 6/10 = 0.6
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P(0<= x <=1) = binomcdf(3,0.6,1) = 0.3520
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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