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One in 100 tennis balls produced at a factory is defective. if you randomly select five tennis balls, what is the probability that at least one will be defective

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You can tell this is a binomial distribution since there is specific failure or success (getting a defective is success, for example).

X~B(5, 0.01)

P(X≥1)= 1-P(X≤1)
=1-(0.999)
=9.80×10⁴ probability of getting at least one that is defective.

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