A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of aspirin tablets. The acceptance sampling plan is to randomly select and test 41 tablets, then accept the whole batch if there is only one or none that doesn't meet the required specifications. If one shipment of 4000 aspirin tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? Will almost all such shipments be accepted, or will many be rejected? The probability that this whole shipment will be accepted is 0.5080'. (Round to four decimal places as needed.) The company will accept % of the shipments and will reject % of the shipments, so (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

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A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of aspirin tablets. The acceptance sampling plan is to randomly select and test 41 tablets, then accept the whole
batch if there is only one or none that doesn't meet the required specifications. If one shipment of 4000 aspirin tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the
probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? Will almost all such shipments be accepted, or will many be rejected?
The probability that this whole shipment will be accepted is 0.5080'.
(Round to four decimal places as needed.)
The company will accept % of the shipments and will reject
% of the shipments, so
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
Transcribed Image Text:A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of aspirin tablets. The acceptance sampling plan is to randomly select and test 41 tablets, then accept the whole batch if there is only one or none that doesn't meet the required specifications. If one shipment of 4000 aspirin tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? Will almost all such shipments be accepted, or will many be rejected? The probability that this whole shipment will be accepted is 0.5080'. (Round to four decimal places as needed.) The company will accept % of the shipments and will reject % of the shipments, so (Round to two decimal places as needed.)
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