SOLUTION: If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction and assume that enrolment in classes is random. What is the probability that less than 10 students in a class

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Question 988768: If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction and assume that enrolment in classes is random.
What is the probability that less than 10 students in a class of 40 require vision correction?

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If you know that 35% of university students require vision correction and assume that enrolment in classes is random.
What is the probability that less than 10 students in a class of 40 require vision correction?
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Binomial Problem with n = 40 and p(need) = 0.35
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P(0<= x <=9) = binomcdf(40,0.35,9) = 0.0644
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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