automobile accidents involve a single vehicle.  A random sample of 25 accident reports is selected.    Include your calculator functions and round your answers to 4 digits. What is the probability that exactly 8 accidents involve a single vehicle?

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The article, “Should You Report That Fender-Bender?” (Consumer Reports, 2013:15), reported that 7 in 10 automobile accidents involve a single vehicle.  A random sample of 25 accident reports is selected.   

Include your calculator functions and round your answers to 4 digits.

  1. What is the probability that exactly 8 accidents involve a single vehicle? I am trying to complete this study guide example but am stuck. I am using a TI-84 calculator and using the binompdf function. I enter 25 trials, .7 for p, and 8 for x but I get 8.051927. This cant be the answer since its too bing what am I doing wrong?
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When I enter this into my TI-84 calculator, I get 8.051972641.... How does that change into 0.00008051927?

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binompdf (25,.7,#
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Transcribed Image Text:TI-84 Plus TEXAS INSTRUMENTS binompdf (25,.7,# 8.051972641E-5 417 STAT PLOT F1 TBLSET F2 FORMAT F3 CALE F4 Y= WINDOW ZOOM TRACE TABLE F5 GRAPH
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trials:25
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Transcribed Image Text:TI-84 Plus TEXAS INSTRUMENTS binompdf trials:25 P1.7 x value:8 STAT PLOT F1 TBLSET F2 FORMAT F3 CALC F4 Y= WINDOW ZOOM TRACE QUIT INS N TABLE F5 GRAPH
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