SCENARIO 6-8 A Company Has 125 Personal Computers. the Probability That Any

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SCENARIO 6-8
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 Scenario 6-8, which of the following is one of the properties required so that the binomial distribution can be used to compute the probability that no more than 2 computers will
Require repair on a given day?

• A) The number of personal computers the company owns on a given day is fixed.
• B) The probability that a computer that will require repair in the morning is the same as that
• In the afternoon.
• C) The number of computers that will require repair in the morning is independent of the
• Number of computers that will require repair in the afternoon.
• D) The probability that two or more computers that will require repair in a given day
• Approaches zero.

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