document.write( "Question 1072879: A container contains 10 diesel engines. The company chooses 6 engines at random, and will not ship the container if any of the engines chosen are defective. Find the probability that a container will be shipped even though it contains 2 defectives if the sample size is 6.\r
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document.write( "Can someone please breakdown the steps to solve this. This is an online class and the help feature isn't explaining how to get the numbers needed to solve it. Thank you \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #687735 by KMST(5328)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! I am baffled by the phrase \"if the sample size is 6\" at the end of the problem. \n" ); document.write( "The problem said before that the company chooses 6 engines out of the 10 in the container. What is that phrase about sample size for? \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Anyway, there are \n" ); document.write( "different possible sets of 6 engines that can be chosen. \n" ); document.write( "NOTE: That is combinations of 10 taking 6 at a time. \n" ); document.write( "Your online class may use a symbol with a \n" ); document.write( "instead of the \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "There are only \n" ); document.write( "sets of 6 good engines that can be made with the \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "As a fraction that is \n" ); document.write( "and that is the probability that the set of 6 engines chosen does not have a defective one. \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "FORMULAS: \n" ); document.write( "I do not like formulas as a substitute for understanding concepts. \n" ); document.write( "The concept that is relevant to this problem is the concept of combinations. \n" ); document.write( "The number ways of choosing a set of \n" ); document.write( "out of a set of \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "or \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "with \n" ); document.write( "makes for an easier calculation than \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Below are the formulas and why they are the way they are. \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Permutations of \n" ); document.write( "the number of different ordered lists of \n" ); document.write( "from all \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "because there are \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "and so on, until you have \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "and \n" ); document.write( "That \n" ); document.write( "to randomly line up all \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Permutations of \n" ); document.write( "the number of different ordered lists of \n" ); document.write( "from the \n" ); document.write( "That number is \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "That is a product of \n" ); document.write( "That is the number of options a teacher would have to randomly select \n" ); document.write( "a line of \n" ); document.write( "The teacher would have \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "and so on, until there are \n" ); document.write( "for the last of the \n" ); document.write( "For the last of the \n" ); document.write( "there are \n" ); document.write( "(After that last pick, there are \n" ); document.write( "disappointed, or relieved that they were not picked). \n" ); document.write( "You can see how factors in the factorials ratio simplify leaving only \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Combinations of \n" ); document.write( "the number of different sets of \n" ); document.write( "from the \n" ); document.write( "The formula for combinations of \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "It is the number of possible sets \n" ); document.write( "There are \n" ); document.write( "but they are not going to be lined up, order does not matter. \n" ); document.write( "Any \n" ); document.write( "but it is just \n" ); document.write( "so the \n" ); document.write( " |