SOLUTION: This question really has me stumped. A banker knows from previous experience that 3% of loans will default. He makes 50 loans in a day. What is the probability that 5 of those 5

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Question 643651: This question really has me stumped.
A banker knows from previous experience that 3% of loans will default. He makes 50 loans in a day. What is the probability that 5 of those 50 loans will default?
I tried viewing it as each loan either defaults or it doesn't so each loan is a .5% probability.
Which gave me 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.03125 but that seems to completely negate the need for the previous experience factor given.
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The probability of successes in trials where is the probability of success on any given trial is given by:



Where is the number of combinations of things taken at a time and is calculated by

You want:



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