A pallet of 10 automobile chassis has arrived at the quality control sector of a manufacturing plant. The quality control manager will reject the whole pallet if one of these chassis is defective. Suppose chassis are defective independently of one another, each with the same probability, p. Suppose that 90.8648% of all packages are sent to the next assembly line. Find the value of p, i.e. the probability of defective. [Hint, eventually you will arrive at a one-equation, one-unknown case. Try to solve it numerically. You may save time if you use excel to solve this numerical case.

A pallet of 10 automobile chassis has arrived at the quality control sector of a manufacturing plant. The quality control manager will reject the whole pallet if one of these chassis is defective. Suppose chassis are defective independently of one another, each with the same probability, p. Suppose that 90.8648% of all packages are sent to the next assembly line. Find the value of p, i.e. the probability of defective. [Hint, eventually you will arrive at a one-equation, one-unknown case. Try to solve it numerically. You may save time if you use excel to solve this numerical case.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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