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4.3 Exercise 5

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Approximately 70 percent of statistics students do their homework in time for it to be collected and graded. Each student does homework independently. In a statistics class of 50 students, what is the probability that at least 40 will do their homework on time? Students are selected randomly.

a. This is a binomial problem because there is only a success or a ________, there are a fixed number of trials, and the probability of a success is .70 for each trial.

OpenStax Statistics, 4.3 Binomial Distribution (Optional), exercise 5

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