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Question 574577: A company purchases shipments of machine components and uses this acceptance sampling plan: Randomly select and test 21 components and accept the whole batch if there are fewer than 3 defectives. If a particular shipment of thousands of components actually has a 6% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted
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A company purchases shipments of machine components and uses this acceptance sampling plan: Randomly select and test 21 components and accept the whole batch if there are fewer than 3 defectives. If a particular shipment of thousands of components actually has a 6% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted
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Binomial problem with n = 21 and p(defect) = 0.06
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P(0<= x <=2) = binomcdf(21,0.06,2) = 0.8716
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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