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Nov 2019 p63 q7
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A competition is taking place between two choirs, the Notes and the Classics. There is a large audience for the competition.
30% of the audience are Notes supporters.
45% of the audience are Classics supporters.
The rest of the audience are not supporters of either of these choirs.
No one in the audience supports both of these choirs.
A random sample of 6 people is chosen from the audience.
(a) Find the probability that no more than 2 of the 6 people are Notes supporters.
(b) Find the probability that none of the 6 people support either of these choirs.
Solution
(a) Let the probability of a person being a Notes supporter be 0.3. We use the binomial distribution with parameters 6 (trials) and 0.3 (success probability).
The probability that no more than 2 people are Notes supporters is: