If from six to seven in the evening, one telephone line in every five is engaged in a conversation: what is the probability that when 10 telephone numbers are chosen at random, only four are in use? None of these 0.2013 0.0880 0.3020
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Since one out of every five telephone lines is engaged in a conversation, the probability that a specific line is engaged is 1/5 or 0.2. Show more…
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