SOLUTION: According to police sources a car with a certain protection system will be recovered 80% of the time. The probability that at exactly five of six cars will be recovered is.
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Question 846351: According to police sources a car with a certain protection system will be recovered 80% of the time. The probability that at exactly five of six cars will be recovered is.
My TI85 just shutdown so I need help doing this the old fashioned way! Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! According to police sources a car with a certain protection system will be recovered 80% of the time. The probability that at exactly five of six cars will be recovered is.
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Comment: You would be better off with a TI-84 for your statistics work.
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Binomial Problem with n = 6 and p(recover) = 0.8
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P(x = 5) = 6C5*0.8^5*0.2 = 6*0.3277*0.2 = 0.3932
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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