A company that produces fine crystal knows from experience that 15% of its goblets have cosmetic flaws and must be classified as "seconds." (Round your answers to three decimal places.) USE SALT (a) Among eight randomly selected goblets, how likely is it that only one is a second? (b) Among eight randomly selected goblets, what is the probability that at least two are seconds? (c) If goblets are examined one by one, what is the probability that at most five must be selected to find four that are not seconds? You may need to use the appropriate table in the Appendix of Tables to answer this question.

A company that produces fine crystal knows from experience that 15% of its goblets have cosmetic flaws and must be classified as "seconds." (Round your answers to three decimal places.) USE SALT (a) Among eight randomly selected goblets, how likely is it that only one is a second? (b) Among eight randomly selected goblets, what is the probability that at least two are seconds? (c) If goblets are examined one by one, what is the probability that at most five must be selected to find four that are not seconds? You may need to use the appropriate table in the Appendix of Tables to answer this question.

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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