SOLUTION: For every lot of a liquid substance that arrives, I do a pass/fail test. I've received 1250 lots with zero lots failing the test. How many lots must pass before the probability o

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Question 682663: For every lot of a liquid substance that arrives, I do a pass/fail test. I've received 1250 lots with zero lots failing the test. How many lots must pass before the probability of failure is zero?
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It depends on how close to zero you consider to be good enough. For the probability to be absolutely zero, you would have to test infinite samples.

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