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Forty percent of all high school graduate work during the summer to earn money for college tuition for the upcoming fall term. Assuming a binomial distribution, if 6 graduates are selected at random, what is the probability that none of the graduates have a summer job

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Answer:


0.0467 is the probability that none of the graduates have a summer job

Explanation:

Here

P
= 0.40 and n
= 6

Probability that none of the graduate gets job

this means that x = 0

P (x = 0)
= ^6C_0 * (0.40)^0 * (0.60)^6

P (x = 0)
= 0.0467

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