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An exam consists of ten true-or-false questions. If a student guesses at every answer, what is the probability that he or she will answer exactly six questions correctly?
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This is a binomial probability problem because there are a fixed number of independent trials (10 questions), each with two possible outcomes (true or false), and we are interested in the number of successes (correct answers). Show more…
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