A local county has an unemployment rate of 5.5%. A random sample of 16 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. The distribution is a binomial. Round answers to 4 decimal places. a) Find the probability that exactly 4 in the sample are unemp

A local county has an unemployment rate of 5.5%. A random sample of 16 employable people are picked at random from the county and are asked if they are employed. The distribution is a binomial. Round answers to 4 decimal places. a) Find the probability that exactly 4 in the sample are unemp

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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a) Find the probability that exactly 4 in the sample are unemployed.

b) Find the probability that there are fewer than 3 in the sample are unemployed.

c) Find the probability that there are more than 1 in the sample are unemployed.

d) Find the probability that there are at most 3 in the sample are unemployed.

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