SOLUTION: A club with 29 members is voting on a proposal. A group of 5 has decided to vote in favor of the proposal while each of the rest of the members vote independently with a chance of

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Question 859836: A club with 29 members is voting on a proposal. A group of 5 has decided to vote in favor of the proposal while each of the rest of the members vote independently with a chance of 40% in favor of the proposal. What are the chances that the proposal will get the majority vote.
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 

Hi,

29 members... majority vote takes at least 15

or at least 10 votes among the remaining 24

p = .40,  n = 24

P(x ≥ 10) = 1 – P(x ≤ 9)= 1-binomcdf(24,.40,9)= .5109 

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