Keith's florists has 15 delivery trucks, used mainly to deliver flowers and flower arrangements in the greenville, south carolina, area. of these 15 trucks, 5 have brake problems. a sample of 4 trucks is randomly selected. what is the probability that 2 of those tested have defective brakes?

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Ray

8 April, 01:24

Keith's florists has 15 delivery trucks, used mainly to deliver flowers and flower arrangements in the greenville, south carolina, area. of these 15 trucks, 5 have brake problems. a sample of 4 trucks is randomly selected. what is the probability that 2 of those tested have defective brakes?

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Jaron Prince · Answer 1

Given the fact that 5 out of the 15 trucks have brake problems, we can find the probability that a delivery truck has brake problems as 5/15 = 0.3333. In the sample of 4 trucks, the number of trucks that have defective brackets is a binomially distributed random variable with n = 4 and p = 0.3333. Using the formula for binomial distribution, we get P (X = 2) = 4C2 * 0.3333² * (1-0.3333) ² = 0.2963.

The answer is 0.2963.