Consider 100 blood donors chosen randomly from a population where the probability of typer a is .40? What is approximate probability that at least 43 donors will have type blood?
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To determine the approximate probability that at least 43 donors will have type A blood out of 100 randomly chosen blood donors, we can use the binomial probability formula.
The binomial probability formula is:
P(x) = (n C x) * p^x * (1 - p)^(n - x)
Where:
P(x) represents the probability of getting x successes,
n is the number of trials (in this case, the number of blood donors),
p is the probability of success (the probability of type A blood),
( n C x) is the number of combinations of n objects taken x at a time (also known as the binomial coefficient).
In this case, we want to find the cumulative probability of at least 43 donors having type A blood out of 100. This means we need to calculate the probabilities of getting 43, 44, 45, ..., up to 100 donors with type A blood, and then sum them up.
P(at least 43 donors have type A blood) = P(43) + P(44) + P(45) + ... + P(100)
To calculate this probability, we can use statistical software like R, Python, or a binomial probability calculator. Alternatively, we can use a normal approximation to estimate the probability.
Using the normal approximation, we assume that the distribution of the number of type A blood donors follows a normal distribution with mean μ = n * p and standard deviation σ = sqrt(n * p * (1 - p)).
To calculate the approximate probability, we can convert the problem into finding the probability of obtaining at most 42 or fewer donors with type A blood out of 100. Then subtract this probability from 1 to get the probability of at least 43 donors having type A blood:
P(at least 43 donors have type A blood) ≈ 1 - P(at most 42 donors have type A blood)
Using the normal approximation, we standardize the probabilities:
P(Z ≤ (42.5 - μ) / σ) ≈ 1 - P(Z ≤ (42.5 - μ) / σ)
where Z is the standard normal distribution.
To find the probability using statistical software or a binomial probability calculator, you can input the values n = 100, x = 43, and p = 0.40 to get the precise probability.
However, if you want a quick approximation without using software, you can calculate the mean μ and standard deviation σ based on the given values, and then look up the values in a standard normal distribution (Z-table) to find the corresponding probabilities and calculate the result.