It has been a bad day for the stock market with 60% of securities losing value. You are evaluating a portfolio of 10 securities and will assume a binomial distribution for the number of securities that lost value.   What is the probability that all 10 securities lose value? What is the probability that fewer than 3 securities lose value?

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It has been a bad day for the stock market with 60% of securities losing value. You are evaluating a portfolio of 10 securities and will assume a binomial distribution for the number of securities that lost value.

 

  1. What is the probability that all 10 securities lose value?
  2. What is the probability that fewer than 3 securities lose value?
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