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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
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Which of the following scenarios can the binomial distribution be used to find out the probability?
A. Errors in a billing process often lead to customer dissatisfaction and ultimately hurt bottom-line profits. An article in Quality Progress discussed a company where 40% of the bills prepared contained errors. If 10 bills are processed, what is the probability that at least one bill will contain errors?
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B. In the Florida lottery Lotto game, you select six numbers from a pool of numbers from 1 to 53 (see flalottery.com). Each wager costs $1. You win the jackpot if you match all six numbers that you have selected. What is the probability of winning the jackpot.
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C. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says that Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties account for a substantial number of questionable insurance claims referred to investigators. Assume that the number of questionable insurance claims referred to investigators by Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties has a mean of 10 per day. What is the probability that between 2 and 5 questionable insurance claims will be referred to investigators by Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties in a day?
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D. A Nielsen study indicates that mobile subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age spend a substantial amount of time watching video on their devices, reporting a mean of 396 minutes per month. What is the probability that an randomlyl selected 18- to 24-year-old mobile subscriber spends less than 321 minutes watching video on his or her mobile device per month?
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