document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1161870>Question 1161870</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of ibuprofen tablets and uses an acceptance sampling plan. This plan randomly selects and tests 26 tablets, then accepts the whole batch if there is at most one that doesn't meet the required specifications. What is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted if a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 15% rate of defects?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(Report answer as a decimal value accurate to four decimal places.) </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #785765 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Boreal><B>Boreal(15235)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Boreal><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=Boreal><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=785765\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> This is the probability that given a fail rate of 0.15, at most 1 (0, 1) will occur when 26 are sampled<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Also on calculator 2nd VARS binomialcdf  ENTER (26,0.15,1) for 0.0817\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "for 0 the probability is 0.85^26=0.0146<BR>\n" );
document.write( "for 1 the probability is 26C1*0.85^25*0.15=0.0671<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That sum is 0.0817<BR>\n" );
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