Tallula's Electronics Inc. manufactures cell phones. The probability that a randomly-chosen cell phone is defective is 0.179. The number of defective phones in a shipment of phones of a given size is described by a binomial random variable. Using the binomial distribution, determine the probability that there will be more than 1 defective phone in a shipment of 24 phones. Express your answer to six decimal places.
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179$. We are also given that the shipment size is $24$ phones. We want to find the probability that there will be more than $1$ defective phone in the shipment. We can use the binomial probability formula to find the probability of having exactly $k$ defective Show more…
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