document.write( "Question 1184907: In a large metropolitan area, past records revealed that 30 percent of all the high school graduates go to college. From 10 graduates selected at random, what is the probability that: Exactly 8 will go to college \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "It is the binomial type probability distribution problem.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of trials n= 10; the probability of the success trial is  30% = 0.3,  and the number of success trials k = 8. \r\n" );
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document.write( "    P =  =  = 0.001447 (rounded) = 0.1447%.     ANSWER\r\n" );
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