Question 540429: 1)You order fourteen burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and nine without. However, the restaurant forgot to label them. If you pick three burritos at random, find the probability of the given event. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
At most two have hot peppers.
2)You order seventeen burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, nine with hot peppers and eight without. However, the restaurant forgot to label them. If you pick four burritos at random, find the probability of the given event. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
Exactly one has hot peppers.
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1)You order fourteen burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and nine without. However, the restaurant forgot to label them.
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If you pick three burritos at random, find the probability of the given event. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
At most two have hot peppers.
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Binomial Problem with n = 3 ; p(hot) = 5/9
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P(0<= x <=2) = 1 - P(x = 3)
= 1 - (5/9)^3
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= 1 - 0.1715
= 0.8285
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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