Aranarth: An urn contains 16 white b***s and 9 black b***s. 10 b***s are extracted from the urn, with replacement. What is the probability that less than 6 b***s are white?
I'm stuck Someone could please help me?
There will be a lot of working to get this answer.
Firstly it is a binomial probablity.
This is because
1) There are only 2 outcomes for each trial (white or not white)
2) the probabiliy of success for each trial always stays the same
3) the trials are indepentant of one another.
P(white)=16/25
P(not white)=9/25
Now you have to use binomial probability for each of these scenarios (and then add them all together to get the final answer)
P(0 white), P(1 white) ....... P(5 white)
Do you know how to do that? Can you work it out? If you want more help I want to see what you have tried first.
The more you can workout yourself, the better your learning will be.