Question

A shelf in the Metro Department Store contains 95 colored ink cartridges for a popular ink-jet printer. Five of the cartridges are defective.

(a) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that they are all defective? (Round your answer to five decimal places.)

(b) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that at least 1 is defective? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

Answer 1

(7C3 * 73C0) / 80C3
but that = (35 * 1) / 80C3
= 35 / 82160
= .00043

For B

(7C1 * 73C2 + 7C2 * 73C1 + 7C3 * 73C0) / 80C3
= 19964 / 82160 = .243
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