The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 13 - General Rules of Probability - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 307: 13.2

Answer

The residents have 10 most common names = 9.6% = 0.096 P(randomly selected resident will not have one of the 10 most common names) = 1 - 0.096 = 0.904 P(none of the names of authors will be among the 10 most common names) = $(0.904)^{9}$ = 0.403

Work Step by Step

As given above
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