In the old days, there was a probability of 0.7 of success in any attempt to make a telephone call. (This often depended on the importance of the person making the call, or the operator's curiosity!) Calculate the probability of having at most 8 successes in 10 attempts.

In the old days, there was a probability of 0.7 of success in any attempt to make a telephone call. (This often depended on the importance of the person making the call, or the operator's curiosity!) Calculate the probability of having at most 8 successes in 10 attempts.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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