1. In a large suburban area, 10% of adults have high bloodpressure. Suppose you select 15 adults at random. Find theprobability that (a) exactly 2 of them have high blood pressureand (b) at most three have high blood pressure.

Given that n=15 , p=18%=0.18 , q=1-p=1-0.18=0.82 X~Binomial(n=15 , p=0.18)

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1. In a large suburban area, 10% of adults have high blood pressure. Suppose you select 15 adults at random. Find the probability that (a) exactly 2 of them have high blood pressure and (b) at most three have high blood pressure.