TABLE 6-7 A Company Has 125 Personal Computers. the Probability That Any

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TABLE 6-7
A company has 125 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.15.
-Referring to Table 6-7 and assuming that the number of computers that requires repair on a given day follows a binomial distribution, compute the probability that there will be less than 8 computers that require repair on a given day using a normal approximation.

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Economic Profit

A measure of profitability calculated by subtracting both explicit and implicit costs from total revenues, reflecting the true economic performance of a business.

Implicit Costs

Represent the opportunity costs of using resources that a firm already owns for production, instead of allocating them for other purposes.

Economic Profits

The margin between total earnings and all incurred costs, accounting for both obvious and concealed expenses.

Accounting Profits

Net income reported on a company's financial statements, calculated as total revenues minus explicit costs, excluding opportunity costs.