TABLE 5-2 a Certain Type of New Business Succeeds 60% of the of the Time

question 155

Short Answer

TABLE 5-2
A certain type of new business succeeds 60% of the time. Suppose that 3 such businesses open (where they do not compete with each other, so it is reasonable to believe that their relative successes would be independent).
-Referring to Table 5-2, the probability that all 3 businesses succeed is ________.

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External Benefit

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Economic Efficiency

A situation where the allocation of resources produces the maximum possible satisfaction of our wants without wasting any resources.

Substandard Concrete

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