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\n" ); document.write( "A quality control engineer at a light bulb plant estimates that 1% of the bulbs it sells are defective.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "This is a standard problem on binomial distribution.\r
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document.write( "Use a standard formula\r\n" );
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document.write( "    P =  =  = 0.0294 (rounded).      ANSWER\r\n" );
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