A shipment of 150 laptops contains 6 defective laptops. A quality control specialist chooses a sample of 8 laptops from the shipment. a How many possible choices of 8 laptops can be made? b. How many of these possible selections will not contain any defective laptops? c. How many of the possible selections will contain at least one defective laptop? d. How many of the possible selections will contain exactly one defective laptop?
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• Total laptops = 150. • Defective laptops = 6. • Nondefective laptops = 150 - 6 = 144. Show more…
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