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Question 541016: If 2% of the auto tires manufactured by a company are defective and 2 tires are randomly selected from an entire week’s production, find the probability that neither is defective (state your probability as a decimal carried out to the fourth place).

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 2% of the auto tires manufactured by a company are defective and 2 tires are randomly selected from an entire week’s production, find the probability that neither is defective (state your probability as a decimal carried out to the fourth place).
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Binomial Problem with n = 2 and p(defect) = 0.02 and p(not defect) = 0.98
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P(not AND not) = 0.98^2 = 0.9604
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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