document.write( "Question 1206618: Recently, a nurse commented that when a patient calls the medical advice line claiming to have the flu, the chance that he or she truly has the flu (and not just a nasty cold) is only about 4%. Of the next 25 patients calling in claiming to have the flu, we are interested in how many actually have the flu.\r
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document.write( "The distribution is binomial.\r\n" );
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document.write( "How many actually have the flu is the math expectation, which for binomial distribution is  n*p.\r\n" );
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document.write( "and for given conditions is 0.04*25 = 1.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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