Answer: the probability that exactly two of the next five people who apply to that university get accepted is 0.23
Step-by-step explanation:
We would number of people that applies for admission at the university and gets accepted. The formula is expressed as
P(x = r) = nCr × p^r × q^(n - r)
Where
x represent the number of successes.
p represents the probability of success.
q = (1 - p) represents the probability of failure.
n represents the number of trials or sample.
From the information given,
p = 0.6
q = 1 - p = 1 - 0.6
q = 0.4
n = 5
the probability that exactly two of the next five people who apply to that university get accepted is
P(x = 2) = 5C2 × 0.6^2 × 0.4^(5 - 2)
P(x = 2) = 10 × 0.36 × 0.064
P(x = 2) = 0.23
To get the probability of two individual events both occurring,
you have to multiply the probabilities of their individual events occurring. Therefore
in this problem, the probability that a student selected at random will pass
both French 101 and French 102 is 0.683 (.75 x .91). The answer is already
rounded to three decimal places.
The answer is 560 because you multiply 1600 times 35 percent.
