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A new antibiotic is effective for 85% of infections the antibiotic is given to 40 patients what is the probability the antibiotic will work in less than half of the participants?

 Dec 6, 2014

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I think that this is a very long winded answer

you must work out the probability of 0 than 1 then.... all the way up to 19

sum of r from 0 to 19 of 

40Cr * 0.85^r * 0.15^(40-r)

 

I apologise for the presentation.

I am on my phone

 Dec 7, 2014
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Best Answer

I think that this is a very long winded answer

you must work out the probability of 0 than 1 then.... all the way up to 19

sum of r from 0 to 19 of 

40Cr * 0.85^r * 0.15^(40-r)

 

I apologise for the presentation.

I am on my phone

Melody Dec 7, 2014

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