General Grant Must Send Orders to General Butler

question 20

Essay

General Grant must send orders to General Butler. Carrier pigeons are the medium of choice. A single pigeon has a .7 probability of arriving at the proper destination in a timely fashion. How many pigeons, each carrying an identical set of orders, must Grant send in order for him to have 98% confidence that the orders reached General Butler?

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