SOLUTION: Gardening: A gardener buys a package of seeds. Eighty percent of seeds of this type germinate. The gardener plants 90 seeds. Approximate the probability that fewer than 75 see

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Question 1146389:
Gardening: A gardener buys a package of seeds. Eighty percent of seeds of this type germinate. The gardener plants 90 seeds.
Approximate the probability that fewer than 75 seeds germinate.

Answer by Glaviolette(140) About Me  (Show Source):
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I'll assume you can use a calculator or some sort of binomial distribution calculator. Using binomcdf on a TI84, trials is 90, p is .8, and x value is 74 since you want fewer than 75. P(x<75) = .7400