A new surgical procedure is said to be successful 80% of the time. Suppose the operation is

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A new surgical procedure is said to be successful 80% of the time. Suppose the operation is performed five times and the results are assumed to be independent of one another. What are the probabilities of these events?
a. All five operations are successful.
b. Exactly four are successful.
c. Less than two are successful.
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Introduction To Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9781133103752

14th Edition

Authors: William Mendenhall, Robert Beaver, Barbara Beaver

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