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Title: A manufacturing company has 5 identical machines that produce nails. The probability that a machine ...
Post by: NERD on Jan 26, 2018
A manufacturing company has 5 identical machines that produce nails. The probability that a machine will break down on any given day is .1 . Define a random variable X to be the number of machines that will break down in a day.
 a. What is the appropriate probability distribution for X?
  b. Compute the probability that 4 machines will break down.
  c. Compute the probability that at least 4 machines will break down.
  d. What is the expected number of machines that will break down in a day?
  e. What is the variance of the number of machines that will break down in a day?


Title: A manufacturing company has 5 identical machines that produce nails. The probability that a machine ...
Post by: sophiakhalid12 on Jan 26, 2018
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