Of the items manufactured by a certain process, 20% are

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QUESTION:

Of the items manufactured by a certain process, 20% are defective. Of the defective items, 60% can be repaired.

a. Find the probability that a randomly chosen item is defective and cannot be repaired.

b. Find the probability that exactly 2 of 20 randomly chosen items are defective and cannot be repaired.

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QUESTION:

Of the items manufactured by a certain process, 20% are defective. Of the defective items, 60% can be repaired.

a. Find the probability that a randomly chosen item is defective and cannot be repaired.

b. Find the probability that exactly 2 of 20 randomly chosen items are defective and cannot be repaired.

ANSWER:

Answer :

Step 1 of 3:

Given, in a process of manufacturing, 20% of the items are defective. In that 20% defectives 60% items can be repaired.

The goal of the problem is

  1. We have to find the probability that a randomly chosen item is defective and cannot be repaired.

      b) we have to find the probability that exactly 2 of 20 randomly chosen items are defective and  

            cannot be repaired.


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