document.write( "Question 1207023: A fruit company guarantees that 89% of the pineapples shipped will ripen within 4 days of delivery. Find the probability that at least 10 pineapples in a case of 12 are ripe within 4 days.
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document.write( "It is a Binomial experiment with the number of trials n= 12 and the probability\r\n" );
document.write( "of the individual success of p= 0.89 for each individual trial.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    P(at least 10 successes of 12 trials) = P(10) + P(11) + P(12) = use the standard formulas for binomial distribution = \r\n" );
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document.write( "    =  = \r\n" );
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document.write( "    = \"66%2A0.89%5E10%2A0.11%5E2+%2B+12%2A0.89%5E11%2A0.11+%2B+0.89%5E12\" = 0.8623  (rounded).    ANSWER\r\n" );
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