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

question 131

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 exactly 1 business succeeds is ________.

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Definitions:

Profit-Maximizing Output

The level of production at which a company can achieve the highest possible profit, usually determined by marginal cost and marginal revenue analysis.

Nondiscriminating Monopolist

A monopolist that charges all consumers the same price for its product, without price discrimination.

Pure Monopolists

Companies that are the sole providers of a product or service in a market, facing no direct competition.

Large-Scale

Refers to operations or activities on a wide or extensive level, often involving the production of goods in large quantities or operations of large organizations or systems.