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Chapter 5: Q1 (page 220)

In Exercises 1–5, assume that 74% of randomly selected adults have a credit card (basedon results from an AARP Bulletin survey). Assume that a group of five adults is randomly selected.

Find the probability that exactly three of the five adults have credit cards.

Short Answer

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The probability that exactly three of the five adults have credit cards is 0.274.

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01

Given information

The number of randomly selected adults are n=5.

The probability of randomly selected adults that have a credit card is p=0.74.

02

Compute the probability that exactly three of the five adults have credit cards

Let x represents the number of adults who have credit cards.

In the given scenario, the variable x will follow the binomial distribution.

The probability mass function of the binomial distribution is given as,

Px=Cxnpxqn-x

The probability that exactly three of the five adults have credit cards is computed as,

P3=C350.7431-0.745-3=5!3!5-3!0.7430.262=0.274

Thus, the probability that exactly three of the five adults have credit cards is 0.274.

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