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Chapter 6 Problem 57E

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Problem 57E

During the second round of the 1989 U.S. Open golf tournament, four golfers scored a hole in one on the sixth hole. The odds of a professional golfer making a hole in one are estimated to be 3,708 to 1, so the probability is 1/3,709. There were 155 golfers participating in the second round that day. Estimate the probability that four golfers would score a hole in one on the sixth hole.

Solution

Step 1 of 3

There are  golfers are participating so ,

Probability of success is given as  

The mean can be calculated as the product of the sample size and the probability of success:

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Title Basic Statistics for Business and Economics  7 
Author Douglas Lind; William Marchal; Samuel Wathen
ISBN 9780077384470

During the second round of the 1989 U.S. Open golf

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