SOLUTION: About 20% of all professional foot ball players are injured during a given season a team has four star players a) what is the probability that at list two of the star players gets

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Question 1195864: About 20% of all professional foot ball players are injured during a given season a team has four star players a) what is the probability that at list two of the star players gets injured?
b)find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the number of players WHO injured


Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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                        Part  (a)

This problem is a binomial distribution with the parameters

    n = 4    (the number of trials);

    k >= 2   (the number of success);

    p = 0.2  (the probability of individual success).


The probability is  

    P = P(2) + P(3) + P(4) = P(n=4, k>=2, p=0.2) = sum%28C%5B4%5D%5Ek%2Ap%5Ek%2A%281-p%29%5E%28n-k%29%2C+k=2%2C4%29 = sum%28C%5B4%5D%5Ek%2A0.2%5Ek%2A0.8%5E%284-k%29%2C+k=2%2C4%29.


     To facilitate my calculations, I used online calculator at this site  https://stattrek.com/online-calculator/binomial.aspx

     It provides nice instructions  and  a convenient input and output for all relevant options/cases.


          The resulting number is P = 0.1808  (rounded).    ANSWER

Part  (a)  is complete.


                        Part  (b)

The binomial distribution has the following properties:


    The mean of the distribution (μx) is equal to n * P  = 4*0.2 = 0.8.


    The variance (σ2x) is n * P * ( 1 - P ) = 4*0.2*0.8 = 0.64.


    The standard deviation (σx) is sqrt[ n * P * ( 1 - P ) ] = sqrt%280.64%29 = 0.8.



For the reference,  see this web-site


https://stattrek.com/probability-distributions/binomial#:~:text=The%20binomial%20distribution%20has%20the,(%201%20%2D%20P%20)%20%5D.


or your textbook.

Part  (b)  is complete.