Solution: Telemarketing. the probability that a call will reach a live person is 0.2. the calls are independent. (a) a telemarketer places 5 calls. what is the probability that none of them reaches a live person.

Answer: The given random experiment can be considered as binomial experiment with probability of success = 0.2 and number of trials = 5

Therefore, we have:

$n=5,p=0.2,q=(1-p)=1-0.2=0.8$

Let x be the number calls that reach to live person.

We have to find $P(x=0)$

Using the binomial probability distribution, we have:

$P(x=0)=\binom{5}{0}0.2^{0} (1-0.2)^{5-0}$

$=1 \times 1 \times 0.8^{5}$

$=0.3277$

Therefore, the probability that none of them reaches a live person is 0.3277

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When Val checks her cable bill, she is shocked by her movie-rental bill for the month. Renting movies costs $2.99 for each movie

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Answer:

She should buy the monthly plan for the unlimited movies rather than pay $2.99 per movie. This is because, the more she pay that amount for each movie, the higher her expenses would become at the end of each month.

For example, let assume, in a month, she 8 free days (Saturday and Sunday). She paying for each movie each of those days would supersede the amount she could have spent assuming she did the unlimited monthly plan of $7.99.

That notwithstanding other days which will feel like watching movies or the public holidays which she would be free to relax.

Step-by-step explanation:

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