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A fast food hamburger restaurant manager is interviewing high school persons age sixteen for possible employment. Persons age sixteen who apply for jobs in the area have no prior work-for-pay experience ninety percent of the time. Let x be the number of the four high school persons age sixteen who have no prior work-for-pay experience. If the manager plans to hire four, what is the probability that two of the four will have work experience?

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A business office has purchased five new electric pencil sharpeners. The manufacturer of these pencil sharpeners states that twenty in one hundred of their sharpeners will require some maintenance or repair work during the first year's use. Find the probability that at least 3 of these sharpeners will need repair during the first year.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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