After being rejected for employment, Kim Kelly learns that the Bellevue Credit Company has hired only two women among the last 18 new employees. She also learns that the pool of applicants is very large, with an approximately equal number of qualified men as qualified women. Help her address the charge of

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Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability
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Problem 11ECP: A manufacturer has determined that a machine averages one faulty unit for every 500 it produces....
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After being rejected for employment, Kim Kelly learns that the Bellevue Credit Company has hired only two women among the last 18 new employees. She also learns that the pool of applicants is very large, with an approximately equal number of qualified men as qualified women.

Help her address the charge of gender discrimination by finding the probability of getting two or fewer women when 18 people are hired, assuming that there is no discrimination based on gender.
(Report answer accurate to 8 decimal places).

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