Respuesta :
Answer:
0.173 probability that she gets exactly three questions correct.
Step-by-step explanation:
For each question, there are only two possible outcomes. Either she guesses the correct answer, or she does not. The probability of guessing the correct answer for a question is independent of other questions. So we use the binomial probability distribution to solve this question.
Binomial probability distribution
The binomial probability is the probability of exactly x successes on n repeated trials, and X can only have two outcomes.
[tex]P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}[/tex]
In which [tex]C_{n,x}[/tex] is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.
[tex]C_{n,x} = \frac{n!}{x!(n-x)!}[/tex]
And p is the probability of X happening.
Seven questions:
This means that [tex]n = 7[/tex]
Each question has four choices.
Abby guesses, which means that [tex]p = \frac{1}[4} = 0.25[/tex]
Find the probability to the nearest thousandth, that Abby gets exactly three questions correct.
This is P(X = 3).
[tex]P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}[/tex]
[tex]P(X = 3) = C_{7,3}.(0.25)^{3}.(0.75)^{4} = 0.173[/tex]
