Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
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ISBN: 9781305251809
Author: Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 48E
NBC News reported on May 2. 2013. that 1 in 20 children in the United States have a food allergy of some sort. Consider selecting a random sample of 25 children and let X be the number in the sample who have a food allergy. Then X ~ Bin(25, .05).
- a. Determine both P(X ≤ 3) and P(X < 3).
- b. Determine P(X ≥ 4).
- c. Determine P( 1 ≤ X ≤ 3).
- d. What are E(X) and σx?
- e. In a sample of 50 children, what is the
probability that none has a food allergy?
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