Suppose that we are counting successes in a Bernoulli process with success rate .3.   What is the probability that for 12 successes it takes no more than 40 trials but at least 20 trials?

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Suppose that we are counting successes in a Bernoulli process with success rate .3.   What is the probability that for 12 successes it takes no more than 40 trials but at least 20 trials?

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A Bernoulli trial is an experiment we conduct which only has 2 possible outcomes (usually called success and failure). An example of a Bernouilli trial is flipping a coin. If we call the occurrence of heads a success, then the flipping of a coin is a typical Bernouilli trial (with the probability of success 0.5 the same as the probability of heads)

A Bernoulli process is a sequence of independent Bernouilli trials. Another important thing to note is that the probability of success in a Bernouilli process is constant throughout.

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