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4.2 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: The probability that the San Jose Sharks will win any given game is 0.3694 based on a 13-year win history of 382 wins out of 1,034 games played (as of a certain date). An upcoming monthly schedule contains 12 games.

The expected number of wins for that upcoming month is:

  1. 1.67
  2. 12
  3. 382 1043 \frac{382}{1043}
  4. 4.43

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 4.2 Binomial Distribution, exercise 21

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