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A manufacturing company has 5 identical machines that produce nails. The probability that a machine will break down on any given day is .1. Define a random variable X to be the number of machines that will break down in a day.

a.What is the appropriate probability distribution for X? Explain how X satisfies the properties of the distribution.
b.Compute the probability that 4 machines will break down.
c.Compute the probability that at least 4 machines will break down.
d.What is the expected number of machines that will break down in a day?
e.What is the variance of the number of machines that will break down in a day?



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Reply 2 on: Mar 25, 2023
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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