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Question 1206618: Recently, a nurse commented that when a patient calls the medical advice line claiming to have the flu, the chance that he or she truly has the flu (and not just a nasty cold) is only about 4%. Of the next 25 patients calling in claiming to have the flu, we are interested in how many actually have the flu.
State the distribution of X. (Enter exact numbers as integers, fractions, or decimals.) Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
The distribution is binomial.
How many actually have the flu is the math expectation, which for binomial distribution is n*p.
and for given conditions is 0.04*25 = 1. ANSWER
