A drug tester claims that a drug cures a rare skin disease 79% of the time. The claim is checked by testing the drug on 100 patients. If at least 75 patients are cured, the claim will be accepted. Find the probability that the claim will be rejected assuming that the manufacturer's claim is true. Use the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution if possible. The probability is (Round to four decimal places as needed.)
A drug tester claims that a drug cures a rare skin disease 79% of the time. The claim is checked by testing the drug on 100 patients. If at least 75 patients are cured, the claim will be accepted. Find the probability that the claim will be rejected assuming that the manufacturer's claim is true. Use the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution if possible. The probability is (Round to four decimal places as needed.)
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Transcribed Image Text:A drug tester claims that a drug cures a rare skin disease 79% of the time. The claim is checked by testing the drug on
100 patients. If at least 75 patients are cured, the claim will be accepted.
Find the probability that the claim will be rejected assuming that the manufacturer's claim is true. Use the normal
distribution to approximate the binomial distribution if possible.
The probability is (Round to four decimal places as needed)
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