SOLUTION: Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win a game as not to win It. If 5 Colonials games are chosen at random, what is the probability that exact

Question 1201222: Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win a game as not to win It. If 5 Colonials games are chosen at random, what is the probability that exactly 3 of those games are won by the Colonials ? Round your response to at least three decimal places .
Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A binomial experiment with the number of trials n=5;  
                           the probability of success of an individual trial p= 0.5;
                           the number of success trials k=3.


Use the standard formula

    P =  =  =  =  = 0.3125.    ANSWER

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