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  • Feb 1, 2009, 03:50 PM
    diana09
    condom probability
    The failure rate of condoms is around 3%. Consider a standard box of 12. Let x be the number of failures. Create probability distribution.

    The table I created is

    0 0.693842361 0.694
    1 0.257508505 0.258
    2 0.043802993 0.044
    3 0.004515772 0.005
    4 0.000314242 0.000
    5 1.55501E-05 0.000
    6 5.61087E-07 0.000
    7 1.48742E-08 0.000
    8 2.87516E-10 0.000
    9 3.95211E-12 0.000
    10 3.66691E-14 0.000
    11 2.06199E-16 0.000
    12 5.31441E-19 0.000

    Is this table correct? What is the probability that between 5-10 will fail?
    By looking at the table, if is correct, it would indicate that is zero.
  • Feb 1, 2009, 04:08 PM
    galactus
    The probability that between 5 and 10 will fail is given by:



    or about .00678%
  • Feb 2, 2009, 08:25 AM
    ebaines

    The table is correct, except that in the 2nd column you have rounded the numbers so that anything less than 10^(-4) shows as zero - why did you do that? Sum up the entries in the first column for the range from 5 to 10 and you'll get the answer.

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