SOLUTION: A baseball player has a batting average of 0.395. What is the probability that he has exactly 1 hits in his next 7 at bats? What's throwing me off is how the decimal has 3 place

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Question 911785: A baseball player has a batting average of 0.395. What is the probability that he has exactly 1 hits in his next 7 at bats?
What's throwing me off is how the decimal has 3 places. I know the formula is (C n,r) x (p)^r x (q)^n-r
So my n=7, what am I suppose to do for p and q?
Please & Thank you!

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A baseball player has a batting average of 0.395. What is the probability that he has exactly 1 hits in his next 7 at bats?
What's throwing me off is how the decimal has 3 places. I know the formula is (C n,r) x (p)^r x (q)^n-r
So my n=7, what am I suppose to do for p and q?
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p = 0.395
q = 0.605
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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