Bananas have an average rotting rate of 0.1%. A banana shipping company boxes bananas 48 to a box. Quality control randomly chooses a box and then chooses 4 bananas. If any of the 4 chosen bananas are rotten, the entire box is discarded. What is the probability that a randomly chosen box of bananas is discarded by quality control?
Bananas have an average rotting rate of 0.1%. A banana shipping company boxes bananas 48 to a box. Quality control randomly chooses a box and then chooses 4 bananas. If any of the 4 chosen bananas are rotten, the entire box is discarded. What is the probability that a randomly chosen box of bananas is discarded by quality control?
Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012
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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability
Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
Problem 2C
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Bananas have an average rotting rate of 0.1%. A banana shipping company boxes bananas 48 to a box. Quality control randomly chooses a box and then chooses 4 bananas. If any of the 4 chosen bananas are rotten, the entire box is discarded. What is the
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