document.write( "Question 1136747: 2. A salesperson contacts ten potential customers. From past experience, we know that for each potential
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Algebra.Com's Answer #754555 by Boreal(15235)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! binomial with n=10 and p=0.1 \n" ); document.write( "expected value is that product or 1 \n" ); document.write( "variance is 1*(1-p)=.9 \n" ); document.write( "sd is sqrt of 0.9 or 0.949\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "probability of 1 sale is 10*0.1^1*0.9^9=0.3874\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "probability of no sales is 0.9^10=0.3487\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "probability of at least 1 sale is 1-prob of no sales or 0.6513 \n" ); document.write( " |