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4.2 Exercise 15

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Use the following information to answer the next four exercises. Recently, a nurse commented that when a patient calls the medical advice line claiming to have the flu, the chance that they truly have the flu (and not just a nasty cold) is only about 4%. Of the next 25 patients calling in claiming to have the flu, we are interested in how many actually have the flu.

Define the random variable and list its possible values.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 4.2 Binomial Distribution, exercise 15

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