SOLUTION: A local county has an unemployment rate of 8%. A random sample of 19 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. Find the probability

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Question 1185311: A local county has an unemployment rate of 8%. A random sample of 19 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. Find the probability that exactly 5 in the sample are unemployed. (The distribution is a binomial. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)
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A local county has an unemployment rate of 8%. A random sample of 19 employable people are picked at random
from the county and are asked if they are employed. Find the probability that exactly 5 in the sample are unemployed.
(The distribution is a binomial. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)
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It is the binomial type probability distribution.


The number of trials n= 19; the probability of the success trial is  0.08,  and the number of success trials k = 5. 


    P = C%5B19%5D%5E5%2A0.08%5E5%2A%281-0.08%29%5E%2819-5%29 = 11628%2A0.08%5E5%2A0.92%5E14 = 0.011857 = 0.0119 (rounded).     ANSWER

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