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a student takes a true false test that has 13 questions and guesses randomly at each answer. Let X be the number of questions answered correctly. Find P(fewer than 4)
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Reiny
cases:
one right
one right
two right
three right
find prob of each case and add them up
I will do one of them:
prob(exactly 3 of 13 right)
= C(13,3) (1/2)^3 (1/2)^10
= 286(1/2)^13
= 286/8192
= 143/4098
one right
one right
two right
three right
find prob of each case and add them up
I will do one of them:
prob(exactly 3 of 13 right)
= C(13,3) (1/2)^3 (1/2)^10
= 286(1/2)^13
= 286/8192
= 143/4098
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