Instruction 6-7 A Company Has 125 Personal Computers.The Probability That Any One

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Multiple Choice

Instruction 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 Instruction 6-7,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 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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Definitions:

Induction

Reasoning from observations to a theory that might explain the observations.

Empiricism

The view that knowledge should be based on experience and observation, on empirical as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

Positivism

A philosophical theory that asserts that genuine knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by empirical sciences.

Rationalism

A philosophy that emphasizes reason and knowledge acquisition through deductive reasoning and logical analysis, rather than empirical evidence.