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A company generally purchases large lots of a certain kind of electronic device. A method is used that rejects a lot if 3 or more defective units are found in a random sample of 100 units. a) What is the probability of rejecting a lot that is 2% defective? b) What is the probability of accepting a lot that is 6% defective?

          A company generally purchases large lots of a certain kind of
electronic device. A method is used that rejects a lot if 3 or
more defective units are found in a random sample of 100 units.
a) What is the probability of rejecting a lot that is 2%
defective?
b) What is the probability of accepting a lot that is 6%
defective?
        
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00:01 We're looking at a lot of 100 units, rather a sample of 100 units, and they will be rejected if three or more units are defective.
00:10 So for part a, we are looking at our 100 units, n is 100.
00:16 2 % are expected to be defective.
00:19 So the probability of each of these being defective is 0 .02.
00:24 What is the probability that 3 or more, so x the number of defective is at least 3? what's that probability of that many being defective? okay, so what we have here is a binomial distribution.
00:42 We have 100 independent trials.
00:45 We have two outcomes.
00:46 Each unit is defective or not.
00:48 And we have the same probability for each, because we have this rate.
00:53 So what i'm going to need to use is the binomial formula.
00:57 Probability of x being defective, n choose x, p to the x, 1 minus p to the n minus x.
01:05 This gives me the probability of exactly x being defective.
01:09 So to get at least 3, i could find the probability that 3 is effective, then 4, then 5, all the way up to 100.
01:16 That would take a really, really long time.
01:19 So i'm not going to do that.
01:20 I'm going to use the complement rule.
01:24 So the complement rule, which i will note down, is looking at a really, really long time.
01:29 Be 100 units and recognising the x can only take 101 different values.
01:35 It could be 0, defective, it could be 1, 2, all the way up to 100.
01:40 One of those is definitely going to happen.
01:42 We have a probability distribution here, so if you add up all those probabilities, you get a total of 1.
01:49 The complement rule is where you start at 1 and you subtract the outcomes you don't want.
01:56 If i'm looking at 3 or more, so i don't want, is two or fewer.
02:04 So i'm going to find this which will be a lot faster because this can only be 0, 1 or 2.
02:12 I'm going to start with 2 to demonstrate this formula.
02:16 So we have 100 independent trials.
02:19 So if i want to multiply the probability for different trials i can just multiply them.
02:23 This term is for the 2 that are defective.
02:26 A probability of 0 .02.
02:29 It happens twice.
02:31 So if it's multiplied by itself.
02:33 This term is the ones that are not defective.
02:37 Probability of 0 .98, 98 % of them aren't defective, and it happens 98 times.
02:46 But here i have the probability that the first unit i can't get at is defective...
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