SOLUTION: Historically, 9 percent of a mail-order firm's repeat charge-account customers have an incorrect current address in the firm's computer database. a. What is the probability

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Question 596785: Historically, 9 percent of a mail-order firm's repeat charge-account customers have an incorrect current address in the firm's computer database.

a. What is the probability that none of the next 16 repeat customers who call will have an incorrect address?
b. What is the probability that five customer who call will have an incorrect address?
c. What is the probability that six customers who call will have an incorrect address?
d. What is the probability that fewer than seven customers who call will have an incorrect address?
All answers should be rounded to four decimal places.


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The probability of successes in trials where is the probability of success on any given trial is given by:



Where is the number of combinations of things taken at a time and is calculated by

a.







so



because and

b. Presuming you mean exactly 5 out of 16:







so



c. Again presuming 6 out of 16:







so



d. Again presuming less than 7 out of 16:









so



Hint: You have already done three terms of this seven-term sum, namely i = 0 (part a), i = 5 (part b), and i = 6 (part c).

You have a LOT of arithmetic to do. Better get busy.

John

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