SOLUTION: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported that 53% of people who had coronary bypass surgery in a recent year were over the age of 65. Fifteen coronary bypass patien

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Question 1171498: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported that 53% of people who had coronary bypass surgery in a recent year were over the age of 65. Fifteen coronary bypass patients are sampled.
• c. What is the probability that fewer than 8 are over the age of 65?

Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is a binomial distribution type problem, where the probability under the question is the sum


     P = P(fewer than 8 of 15) = P(0) + P(1) + P(2) + . . .  + P(7) =       (1)


The number of trials is              15;
The indexes of success trials        k = 0,1,2,3, . . . ,7
The probability of success trial     p = 0.53;
                                     q = 1 - p
C(n,k) = n! / (k! * (n-k)!)          are binomial coefficients.


The sum  (1)  is a cumulative sum.


Instead of calculating every term of (1) individually and then summing them up, you may use Excel function 

BINOM.DIST(7, 15, 0.53, TRUE)  to calculate the cumulative sum value in one click.


In this way,  you get


    P =  = 0.406524.      ANSWER

Solved.

On Excel function BINOM.DIST, see its description everywhere, for example
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/binom-dist-function-c5ae37b6-f39c-4be2-94c2-509a1480770c


On binompdf function for pocket calculators TI-83 and TI-84 see the link
http://users.rowan.edu/~schultzl/ti/binomial.pdf


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