16. A company makes candy-coated chocolates, 40% of which are red. The production line mixes the candiesrandomly and packages ten per box.a) What is the probability that fewer than four candies in a given box are red?b) What is the probability that at least four candies in a given box are red?31

Given: P(red candy), p = 0.4 q = 1 - p = 0.6 Sample size, n = 10 Binomial distribution: P(X = x) =…

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16. A company makes candy-coated chocolates, 40% of which are red. The production line mixes the candies randomly and packages ten per box. a) What is the probability that fewer than four candies in a given box are red? b) What is the probability that at least four candies in a given box are red?