Answer to Question #237599 in Statistics and Probability for Nana

Question

The personnel manager of a company feels that 60% of the employees will have enhanced

skill after attending the training programme if they are sponsored for an in-house training

programme. A sample of records of 49 employees of the company, who attended the

training programme on skill development, reveals that only 24 of them are having enhanced

skill after attending the training programme. Find the probability that the sample of

employees who attended the training programme have enhanced their skill.

Answer 1

For the given problem total sample size is(n) =49

 total favourable event is(x) =24

 hence the required probability is p=24/49 = 0.4898