2. Assume a cardiovascular surgeon has implanted 13 pacemakers in his patients from a new batch of pacemakers that have been found to have a defect that causes them to stop working. If each pacemaker has a 23.47% chance that it will work, what is the probability that all the patients’ pacemakers will work the way they are supposed to?A) 6.556e-9B) .0527C) .4730D) .5270

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2. Assume a cardiovascular surgeon has implanted 13 pacemakers in his patients from a new batch of pacemakers that have been found to have a defect that causes them to stop working. If each pacemaker has a 23.47% chance that it will work, what is the probability that all the patients’ pacemakers will work the way they are supposed to?
A) 6.556e-9
B) .0527
C) .4730
D) .5270

 

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