Homework Help: Math Homework

Posted by Josh on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:04am.

In a clinical trial, a drug used to relieve pain caused side effects in 2% of the patients who took it. For a
new trial, three patients were selected at random. Find the probability that all three of the patients had
side effects

Math Homework - PsyDAG, Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 1:09am
If the events are independent, the probability of both/all events occurring is determined by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events.

.02^3 = ?

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