For After-Hours Emergencies, Doctors Often Use a Messaging/paging Service to Allow

question 17

Multiple Choice

For after-hours emergencies, doctors often use a messaging/paging service to allow patients to contact them.If it is known that 30% of the patients who call the messaging service fail to leave a message for the doctor, what is the probability that out of 80 randomly sampled calls, more than 30 will fail to leave a message?

• A) 0.0512
• B) 0.9279
• C) 0.3750
• D) 0.0721

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