A manufacturing machine has a 3% defect rate.If

Alex Bettaieb

Alex Bettaieb

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2022-08-11

A manufacturing machine has a 3% defect rate.

If 5 items are chosen at random, what is the probability that at least one will have a defect? Round answer to 4 decimal places.

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xleb123

xleb123

Skilled2023-06-02Added 181 answers

To find the probability that at least one out of five randomly chosen items will have a defect, we can use the complement rule.
Let's denote the event at least one item has a defect as A. The probability of no items having a defect can be denoted as the complement of event A, which we'll denote as A'.
Given that the defect rate of the manufacturing machine is 3%, the probability of an item not having a defect is 1 minus the defect rate, or 10.03=0.97.
To find the probability of no items having a defect when selecting five items, we multiply the probabilities of each item not having a defect together. Since the items are chosen randomly and independently, we can calculate this as (0.97)5.
Therefore, the probability of no items having a defect is (0.97)50.8550.
Using the complement rule, we can find the probability of at least one item having a defect:
P(A)=1P(A)=10.8550=0.1450
Rounded to four decimal places, the probability that at least one out of five randomly chosen items will have a defect is approximately 0.1450.

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