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OpenStax, Statistics §4.3 Binomial Distribution (Optional) · Exercise 10 · Probability · Discrete distributions

Binomial Distribution (Optional) · Exercise 10

Recently, a nurse commented that when a patient calls the medical advice line claiming to have the flu, the chance that he or she truly has the flu (and not just a nasty cold) is only about 4 percent. Of the next 25 patients calling in claiming to have the flu, we are interested in how many actually have the flu.

Define the random variable and list its possible values.

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OpenStax, Statistics · §4.3 Binomial Distribution (Optional) · Exercise 10

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