Harley Davidson, director of quality control for the Kyoto Motor company, is conducting his monthly spot check of automatic transmissions. In this procedure, 10 transmissions are removed from the pool of components and are checked for manufacturing defects. Historically, only 2 percent of the transmissions have such flaws. (Assume that flaws occur independently in different transmissions.) What is the probability that of the selected transmissions has at the most two manufacturing flaws?

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Harley Davidson, director of quality control for the Kyoto Motor company, is conducting his monthly spot check of automatic transmissions. In this procedure, 10 transmissions are removed from the pool of components and are checked for manufacturing defects. Historically, only 2 percent of the transmissions have such flaws. (Assume that flaws occur independently in different transmissions.) What is the probability that of the selected transmissions has at the most two manufacturing flaws?

 

 

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