Homework Help: math 121

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 1:59pm.

Henry will reject a cookie with less than 8 raisins.In the past, one out of every 100 cookies had less than 8 raisins. Find theprobability that the first cookie Henry rejects is the 5th cookie on the line.

math 121 - Steve, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 2:26pm
the chance that the first 4 cookies are not rejected is .99^4 = .96060

then the chance that the 5th cookie is rejected is .01, so, the final

p = .99^4 * .01 == .0096

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