How many people out of 12 people do you expect to be taller than 6ft.?     Now if you keep on selecting people, one at a time until you find four people taller than 6ft, (thinking about you are choosing people to form a basketball team), what is the chance that you need to select exactly 8 people?

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  1. In a given town, there are 10% of males taller than 6 ft.
  • If you randomly choose 18 people from this population, what is the chance that at least two of them are over 6 ft.?

 

 

  • How many people out of 12 people do you expect to be taller than 6ft.?

 

 

  • Now if you keep on selecting people, one at a time until you find four people taller than 6ft, (thinking about you are choosing people to form a basketball team), what is the chance that you need to select exactly 8 people?

 

(solve with a z score table please)

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Let X be the number of people over 6 ft with probability p= 10% =0.1 

1): number of people selected n=18 

X~ Bin(n=18,p=0.10) 

pmf : P(x)= {nx}px(1-p)n-x  :x=0,1,2... n 

P(x)={18x}×0.1x×0.918-x     : x=0,1,2... 18 

what is the chance that at least two of them are over 6 ft.?

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