The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

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

Chapter 14 - Binomial Distributions - Check Your Skills - Page 340: 14.16

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

We take $5$ cards here, thus $n=5$. To guess an answer correctly is $p=0.25$, thus the probability of guessing incorrectly is $1-p=0.75$. And the number of ways to arrange the sequence is: ${5\choose2}=10$.
Update this answer!

You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this answer.

Update this answer

After you claim an answer you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. An editor will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback.