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A student studying for a vocabulary test knows the meanings of 14 words from a list...

A student studying for a vocabulary test knows the meanings of 14 words from a list of 22 words. If the test contains 10 words from the study list, what is the probability that at least 8 of the words on the test are words that the student knows? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

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The probability that the students know the word = 14/22 =0.636363636

Let X be the number of words out of 10 that the student knows. Then

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