This Friday, Tucker has a French vocabulary test as well as a Spanish vocabulary test. To prepare, he made a study card for each word, 44% of which are French. Every time he picks a card, he sticks it back in the deck and shuffles again.If Tucker picks a study card from the deck 5 times during his first study session, what is the probability that exactly 3 cards have a French word?Write your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth.____
Q. This Friday, Tucker has a French vocabulary test as well as a Spanish vocabulary test. To prepare, he made a study card for each word, 44% of which are French. Every time he picks a card, he sticks it back in the deck and shuffles again.If Tucker picks a study card from the deck 5 times during his first study session, what is the probability that exactly 3 cards have a French word?Write your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth.____
Find French Card Probability: First, we need to find the probability of picking a French card. Since 44% of the cards are French, the probability of picking a French card is 0.44.
Calculate Non-French Card Probability: The probability of picking a non-French card is then 1−0.44, which is 0.56.
Apply Binomial Probability Formula: We use the binomial probability formula, which is P(X=k)=(kn)⋅(pk)⋅((1−p)(n−k)), where n is the number of trials, k is the number of successes, p is the probability of success on a single trial, and (kn) is the binomial coefficient.
Calculate (3)(5): For exactly 3 French cards, we have n=5, k=3, and p=0.44. So we need to calculate (3)×(0.443)×(0.56(5−3))(5).
Calculate 0.443: Calculating (3)(5) gives us 3!⋅(5−3)!5!=10.
Calculate 0.562: Now we calculate 0.443 which is 0.085184.
Multiply Results: Next, we calculate 0.562 which is 0.3136.
Multiply Results: Next, we calculate 0.562 which is 0.3136. Multiplying these together, we get 10×0.085184×0.3136=0.2673.
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