Problem Solving

1.Coin is tossed 10 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 6 heads? (3pts)
Given: n=10 x=6 p=.50

2. Hospital records show that of patients suffering from a certain disease, 75% die of it.
What is the probability that of 6 randomly selected patients, 4 will recover? (3pts)

3. When a new machine is functioning properly, only 9% of the items produced are
defective. Assume that we will randomly select 4 parts produced on the machine and
that we are interested in the number of defective parts found. (3pts)

a. How many experimental outcomes result in exactly one defect

being found? (3pts)
b. Compute the probabilities associated with finding 2 defects. (3pts)

Identification

1.A special mathematical formula that can be used to compute the

probability of x successes in the n trials.