Binomial Probability Questions

1) 80% of those who sit an examination pass. What is the probability that out of a
group of 4 students chosen at random
a) 3 pass
b) 2 pass
c) at least 3 pass?
2) One man in three is 1.8 m. or more in height. What is probability that 2 out of 5
men chosen at random are in this category?
3) Two men in five attend football matches on a Saturday afternoon. Four men are
interviewed at random. What is the probability that at least one of them watches
football on Saturday afternoons?
4) If 20% of the bolts produced by a certain machine are defective, what is the
probability that, from a group of 5 chosen at random, at most 1 will be defective?
5) A drug cures two people in every five suffering from a certain disease. What is the
probability that when the drug is given to 5 patients who have the disease, exactly
2 will be cured?
6) Find, correct to three decimal places, the probability of throwing 2 sixes in 6
throws of a fair die?
7) A multiple-choice test paper has eight questions, each of which offers four
possible answers of which only one is correct. A candidate guesses the answer to
each question. Calculate the probabilities that this candidate will have the correct
answers to
a) exactly 3 questions
b) at least 1 question
What is the expected number of correct answers for this candidate?
8) Independently for each shot fired at a target by a particular person, the probability
that the shot will hit the target is 0.75. If the person fires 7 shots, find the
probability that
a) Exactly 3 will hit the target
b) At most 2 will hit the target?
9) 30% of the output of a production line producing high quality electrical
measuring devices is on average defective. What is the probability that, if a
random sample of 7 measuring devices is taken ,
a) none of the sample is defective
b) 3 of the sample are defective?

Answers for the Binomial Probability Questions

1. (a) 0.4096 (b) 0.1536 (c) 0.8192
2. 0.3292
3. 0.8704
4. 0.73728
5. 0.3456
6. 0.201
7. (a) 0.2076 (b) 0.89989
8. (a) 0.057678
9. (a) 0.0823543

(b) 0.012878
(b) 0.2268945