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A tire company has determined that its tires have a 1 %
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A tire company has determined that its tires have a 1 % premature rate of failure on the road. The failure mechanisms seem not to be related to each other. What is the chance that none of the 16 tires shipped to a retailer will have premature failure?
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A tire company has determined that its tires have a 1 % premature rate of failure on the road. The failure mechanisms seem not to be related to each other. What is the chance that none of the 16 tires shipped to a retailer will have premature failure?
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
Let be the random variable that denotes the number of tires shipped to a retailer having premature failure.
A tire company has determined that its tires have a 1 % premature rate of failure on the road.
Therefore, if a tire is selected at random, then the probability that it has a premature failure on the road is
Here, .