A public interest group hires students to solicit donations by telephone. After a brief training perod students make cals to potential donors and are paid on a commission basis. Experience indicates that early on, these students tend to have only modest success and that 70% of them give up their jobs in their first two weeks of employment. The group hires 5 students, which can be viewed as a random sample. Answer parts a. and b. below. a. What is the probability that at least 2 of the 5 will give up in the first two weeks? (Round to four decimal places as needed.)

A public interest group hires students to solicit donations by telephone. After a brief training perod students make cals to potential donors and are paid on a commission basis. Experience indicates that early on, these students tend to have only modest success and that 70% of them give up their jobs in their first two weeks of employment. The group hires 5 students, which can be viewed as a random sample. Answer parts a. and b. below. a. What is the probability that at least 2 of the 5 will give up in the first two weeks? (Round to four decimal places as needed.)

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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