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Question 866782: One in five South African adults have outstanding traffic fines. If seven South African adults are randomly selected, calculate the probability that
a) three have outstanding traffic fines.
b) at most one has an outstanding traffic fine.
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Hi

p(fine) = 1/5 = .2,   n = 7

P(x=3) = binompdf(7, .2, 3)= .1147

P(x ≤ 1) = binomcdf(7, .2, 1) = .5767 

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