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Chapter 4: Q196SE (page 285)

Testing for spoiled wine. Suppose that you are purchasing cases of wine (12 bottles per case) and that, periodically, you select a test case to determine the adequacy of the bottles鈥� seals. To do this, you randomly select and test 3 bottles in the case. If a case contains 1 spoiled bottle of wine, what is the probability that this bottle will turn up in your sample?

Short Answer

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The probability that the spoiled bottle will turn up in the sample is 0.25.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

In a purchase case containing 12 bottles, randomly 3 bottles are selected.

02

Calculating the Probability 

Let X be the spoiled bottles in the sample.

Here, a case containing 1 spoiled bottle is taken.

By definitions, the probability that the spoiled bottle will turn up in the sample is given as

p=31121=35=0.25

Hence, the probability that the spoiled bottle will turn up in the sample is 0.25.

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