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Nov 2022 p53 q5
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Company A produces bags of sugar. An inspector finds that on average 10% of the bags are underweight. 10 of the bags are chosen at random. Find the probability that fewer than 3 of these bags are underweight.
Solution
Let the probability of a bag being underweight be \(p = 0.1\). The number of underweight bags follows a binomial distribution \(X \sim B(10, 0.1)\).
We need to find \(P(X < 3) = P(X = 0) + P(X = 1) + P(X = 2)\).