A new surgery is successful 80% of the time. If the results of 6 such surgeries are randomly sampled, what is the probability that more than 3 of them are successful?Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places, and round your answer to two decimal places.

Respuesta :

In this problem, we have a binomial probability distribution

where

p=80%=0.80

q=1-p -----> q=0.20 probability of fail

the probability that more than 3 of them are successful is

P(X>3)=P(x=4)+P(X=5)+P(x=6)

step 1

Find out P(X=4)

[tex]\begin{gathered} P(X=4)=\frac{6!}{4!(6-4)!}*0.80^4*0.20^2 \\ P(X=4)=0.24576 \end{gathered}[/tex]

step 2

Find out P(X=5)

[tex]\begin{gathered} P(X=5)=\frac{6!}{5!(6-5)!}\times0.80^5\times0.20^1 \\ P(X=5)=0.393216 \end{gathered}[/tex]

step 3

Find out P(X=6)

[tex]\begin{gathered} P(X=6)=\frac{6!}{6!(6-6)!}\times0.80^6\times0.20^0 \\ P(X=6)=0.262144 \end{gathered}[/tex]

step 4

Adds the probabilities

P(X>3)=0.24576+0.393216+0.262144

P(X>3)=0.90112

therefore

The answer is 0.90