SOLUTION: WidgCo is a company that manufactures widgets. It is known that 1 out of every 40 widgets that the company produces is defective. A batch of 150 widgets is produced. Find the pr

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Question 1154375: WidgCo is a company that manufactures widgets. It is known that 1 out of every 40 widgets that the company produces is defective. A batch of 150 widgets is produced.
Find the probability that the number of defective widgets in the batch is more than 1 but less than 5.
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
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To find how many are defective
(1/40) * 150 3.75
so we round it off to 4