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Question 4 of 10, Step 1 of 1 1/out of 10 Correct Certify Completion Icon Tries remaining:0 The Magazine Mass Marketing Company has received 16 entries in its latest sweepstakes. They know that the probability of receiving a magazine subscription order with an entry form is 0.5. What is the probability that no more than 3 of the entry forms will include an order

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Answer from: henrymototero

0.0105 = 1.05% probability that no more than 3 of the entry forms will include an order.

Step-by-step explanation:

For each entry form, there are only two possible outcomes. Either it includes an order, or it does not. The probability of an entry including an order is independent of any other entry, which means that the binomial probability distribution is used to solve this question.

Binomial probability distribution

The binomial probability is the probability of exactly x successes on n repeated trials, and X can only have two outcomes.

$P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}$

In which $C_{n,x}$ is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.

$C_{n,x} = \frac{n!}{x!(n-x)!}$

And p is the probability of X happening.

The Magazine Mass Marketing Company has received 16 entries in its latest sweepstakes.

This means that n = 16

They know that the probability of receiving a magazine subscription order with an entry form is 0.5.

This means that p = 0.5

What is the probability that no more than 3 of the entry forms will include an order?

At most 3 including an order, which is:

$P(X \leq 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) + P(X = 3)$

In which

$P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}$

$P(X = 0) = C_{16,0}.(0.5)^{0}.(0.5)^{16} \approx 0$

$P(X = 1) = C_{16,1}.(0.5)^{1}.(0.5)^{15} = 0.0002$

$P(X = 2) = C_{16,2}.(0.5)^{2}.(0.5)^{14} = 0.0018$

$P(X = 3) = C_{16,3}.(0.5)^{3}.(0.5)^{13} = 0.0085$

Then

$P(X \leq 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2) + P(X = 3) = 0 + 0.0002 + 0.0018 + 0.0085 = 0.0105$

0.0105 = 1.05% probability that no more than 3 of the entry forms will include an order.

Answer from: Quest

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Answer from: Quest

d. 24+-0.114

step-by-step explanation:

the question requires us to calculate the approximate 95% confidence interval for the mean number of ounces of ketchup per bottle in the sample given the following statistics;

sample mean = 24

standard deviation, σ = 0.4

sample size , n = 49

the confidence interval for a population mean is calculated using the formula;

sample mean ± z-score*(σ/sqrt(n))

the z-score associated with a 95% confidence interval, from the standard normal tables, is;

1.96

substituting these values into the formula;

24 ± 1.96*(0.4/7)

= 24 ± 0.112

from the alternatives given, choice d is closest to the above expression;