UNDERSTANDING BASIC STATISTICS (LOOSE)
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Chapter 6.3, Problem 12P
Quality Control: Syringes The quality-control inspector of a production plant will reject a batch of syringes if two or more defective syringes are found in a random sample of eight syringes taken from the batch. Suppose the batch contains 1% defective syringes.
(a) Make a histogram showing the probabilities of r = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 defective syringes in a random sample of eight syringes.
(b) Find
(c) What is the
(d) Find
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