document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=858875>Question 858875</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A company purchases shipments of machine components and uses this acceptance sampling plan: Randomly select and test 26 components and accept the whole batch if there are fewer than 3 defectives. If a particular shipment of thousands of components actually has a 3% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? 	\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) 0.9580 	B) 0.0348 	C) 0.1408 	D) 0.5051 <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Randomly select and test 26 (this is \"n\") components and accept the whole batch if there are fewer than 3 defectives. If a particular shipment of thousands of components actually has a 3% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Binomial Problem with n = 26 and p(accept) = 0.97<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "P(x < 3) = binomcdf(26,0.03,2) = 0.9580<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) 0.9580 B) 0.0348 C) 0.1408 D) 0.5051 <BR>\n" );
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