SOLUTION: A container contains 15 diesel engines. The company chooses 7 engines at random, and will not ship the container if any of the engines chosen are defective. Find the probability th

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Question 993967: A container contains 15 diesel engines. The company chooses 7 engines at random, and will not ship the container if any of the engines chosen are defective. Find the probability that a container will be shipped even though it contains 2 defectives if the sample size is 7.
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A container contains 15 diesel engines. The company chooses 7 engines at random, and will not ship the container if any of the engines chosen are defective. Find the probability that a container will be shipped even though it contains 2 defectives if the sample size is 7.
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# of ways to succeed:: 13C7
# of random sets of 7:: 15C7
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Ans: 13C7/15C7 = 0.2667
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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