A poll is given, showing 70% are in favor of a new building
project.
If 9 people are chosen at random, what is the probability that
exactly 6 of them favor the new building project?
A poll is given ; 70% of the subjects are in favour of a new building project.
9 people are chosen at random.
So, if X be the number of people out of these 9 who favour the new building project, then X follows binomial distribution with parameters n=9 and p=0.7.
We have to find the probability tha exactly 6 of them favour the new building project.
So, basically we have to find P(X=6).
Now, the PMF of X is
Where,
So, we have to find
So, the probability that exactly 6 out of 9 randomly selected persons favour the building project, is 0.2668.
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