A local county has an unemployment rate of 6.1%. A random sample of 20 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. The distribution is a binomial. Round answers to 4 decimal places. a) Find the probability that exactly 4 in the sample are unemployed.  b) Find the probability that there are fewer than 2 in the sample are unemployed.  c) Find the probability that there are more than 4 in the sample are unemployed.

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A local county has an unemployment rate of 6.1%. A random sample of 20 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. The distribution is a binomial. Round answers to 4 decimal places.

a) Find the probability that exactly 4 in the sample are unemployed. 

b) Find the probability that there are fewer than 2 in the sample are unemployed. 

c) Find the probability that there are more than 4 in the sample are unemployed.

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