Answer to Question #281600 in Statistics and Probability for brad

Question

In a large restaurant 2 out of 5 customers ask for water with their meals .A random sample of 12 customers is selected . Find the probability that exactly 8 customers ask for water with their meal.

Answer 1

binomial distribution

$n=12,p=2/5=0.4,q=1-p=0.6$

$P(x=k)=C^k_{n}\cdot p^k\cdot q^{-n-k}$

$P(x=8)=C^8_{12}\cdot0.4^8\cdot0.6^4=0.0420$