English
Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationHSC Commerce Class 12

Forty percent of business travellers carry a laptop. In a sample of 15 business travelers, what is the probability that 12 of the travelers will not have a laptop? - Business Mathematics and Statistics

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

Forty percent of business travellers carry a laptop. In a sample of 15 business travelers, what is the probability that 12 of the travelers will not have a laptop?

Sum

Solution

Given n = 5

p = `40/10 = 2/5`

q = 1 – p = `1 - 2/5 = (5-2)/5 = 3/5`

The binomial distribution P(X = x) = `15"c"_x (2/5)^x (3/5)^(15 - x)`

P(12 of the travels will not have a laptop)

= 1 – P(X = 12)

= `1 - 15"c"_12 (2/5)^12(3/5)^(15 - 12)`

= `1 - 15"c"_3 (2/5)^12 (3/5)^3`

= `1 - ((15 xx 14 xx 13)/(1 xx 2 xx 3)) [((2)^12 (3)^3)/(5)^15]`

= `1 - 455 ((4096 xx 27)/(3.055 xx 10^10))`

= `1 - 50319360/300550000000`

= `1 - 0.001647`

= 0.99835

shaalaa.com
Distribution
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 7: Probability Distributions - Exercise 7.1 [Page 156]

APPEARS IN

Samacheer Kalvi Business Mathematics and Statistics [English] Class 12 TN Board
Chapter 7 Probability Distributions
Exercise 7.1 | Q 14. (ii) | Page 156

RELATED QUESTIONS

In a particular university 40% of the students are having newspaper reading habit. Nine university students are selected to find their views on reading habit. Find the probability that atleast two-third have newspaper reading habit


A pair of dice is thrown 4 times. If getting a doublet is considered a success, find the probability of 2 successes


Mention the properties of poisson distribution


The distribution of the number of road accidents per day in a city is poisson with mean 4. Find the number of days out of 100 days when there will be no accident


Choose the correct alternative:

An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. The chance that in the next six trials, there shall be at least four successes is


Choose the correct alternative:

If for a binomial distribution b(n, p) mean = 4 and variance = 4/3, the probability, P(X ≥ 5) is equal to


Choose the correct alternative:

Monthly expenditure on their credit cards, by credit cardholders from a certain bank, follows a normal distribution with a mean of ₹ 1,295.00 and a standard deviation of ₹ 750.00. What proportion of credit cardholders spend more than ₹ 1,500.00 on their credit cards per month?


X is a normally distributed variable with mean µ = 30 and standard deviation σ = 4. Find P(X < 40)


X is a normally distributed variable with mean µ = 30 and standard deviation σ = 4. Find P(X > 21)


People’s monthly electric bills in Chennai are normally distributed with a mean of ₹ 225 and a standard deviation of ₹ 55. Those people spend a lot of time online. In a group of 500 customers, how many would we expect to have a bill that is ₹ 100 or less?


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×