Approximately 90% of all people are right-handed. Consider a grouping of ten people. Assume that the requirements for a binomial distribution have been satisfied. What is the probability that at most 5 will be right handed ?

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Approximately 90% of all people are right-handed. Consider a grouping of ten people. Assume that the requirements for a binomial distribution have been satisfied. What is the probability that at most 5 will be right handed ?
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We have given approximately 90% of all people are right-handed.

P = 0.90

Let X is a random variable shows the number of right-handed people.

Here X has binomial distribution with parameters n = 10 and p = 0.90.

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