A manufacturing machine has a 7% defect rate. If 4 items are chosen at random, what is the probability that at least one will have a defect? Hint: This can be solved using binompdf but there an easier way...notice that the compliment of this event is "exactly none will have a defect".

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Chapter12: Probability
Section12.3: Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Bayes' Theorem
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A manufacturing machine has a 7% defect rate. If 4 items are chosen at random, what is the probability that at least one will have a defect? Hint: This can be solved using binompdf but there an easier way...notice that the compliment of this event is "exactly none will have a defect".

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