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Activity 10

This document appears to be a quiz or activity sheet for a statistics class. It contains 10 multiple choice or short answer questions about binomial experiments and probabilities. The questions cover topics like identifying properties of binomial experiments, calculating probabilities using binomial distribution expressions, and determining probabilities of events occurring in scenarios like defective products, dice rolls, test scores, committee attendance, and daily sales.

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STAT 20053

ACTIVITY 10

Name: ___________________________________ Score: ___________

1. Which of the following is not a property of a Binomial Experiment?


a. All trials are identical.
b. Each trial has only two possible outcomes.
c. The probability of success may change from trial to trial.
d. The purpose of the experiment is to determine the number of successes that occurs during
the n trials.

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2. In the expression, ( ) (0.4)3 (0.6)5 which value represents the number of trials?
3
7
3. In the expression, ( ) (0.4)2 (0.6)5 which value represents the probability of failure?
2

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4. In the expression, ( ) (0.5)3 (0.5)7 which value represents the number of successes?
3

5. The probability of a computer memory chip being defective is 0.02. Which of the following
statements is true?
a. In a shipment of 100 chips, two will be defective.
b. The expected number of defective chips in a shipment of 500 is ten.
c. In a shipment of 1000 chips, it is certain that at least one will be defective.
d. All statements above are false.

6. A manufacturer of halogen bulbs knows that 3% of the production of their 100 W bulbs will be
defective. What is the probability that exactly 5 bulbs in a carton of 144 bulbs will be defective?

7. A fair die has four faces numbered one to four. What is the probability of rolling a two exactly
three times in ten rolls of the die?

8. A student writes a five-question multiple-choice quiz. Each question has four possible responses.
The student guesses at random for each question. Calculate the probability for each possible score
on the test from 0 to 5.

9. There are 10 members on a committee. The probability of any member attending a randomly
chosen meeting is 0.9. The committee cannot do business if more than 3 members are absent.
What is the probability that 7 or more members will be present on a given date?

10. A salesman has a 20% probability of making a sale to any customer who enters his department.
On a typical day, he will meet 30 customers. What minimum number of sales will he have an
88% certainty of making for any given day?

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