Instruction 6.8 A Company Has 125 Personal Computers. the Probability That Any

question 55

Multiple Choice

Instruction 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 Instruction 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 two computers will require repair on a given day?

• A) 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.
• B) A randomly selected computer on a given day will either require a repair or will not.
• C) The probability that a computer that will require repair in the morning is the same as that 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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