SOLUTION: A quiz consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Each question has 5 choices, with exactly one correct choice. A student, totally unprepared for the quiz, guesses on each of the 15

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Question 764365: A quiz consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Each question has 5 choices, with exactly one correct choice. A student, totally unprepared for the quiz, guesses on each of the 15 questions.
a. How many questions should the student expect to answer correctly?

b. What is the standard deviation of the number of questions answered correctly?

c. If at least 9 questions must be answered correctly to pass the quiz, what is the chance the student passes?

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c. You need the probability that the student will score exactly 9 plus the probability of exactly 10 plus the probability of exactly 11, and so on all the way up to 15.

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

You need to calculate:

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