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Please clear explanation of your answers. Thank you A Professor wishes to recrui

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Please clear explanation of your answers. Thank you

A Professor wishes to recruit 5 students to participate in an experiment. Let p be the probability that a randomly selected student agrees to participate. What is the probability that 20 students must be asked before 5 are found who agree to participate? Explain your reasoning for your answer Your submission MUST be a single PDF file. If you find typing math text in word or latex hard, you can first write on a paper and copy a picture of your work in the PDF file -- it should be readable.

Explanation / Answer

Probabity of student agreeing to particiate = p

proabity that 20 students must be asked before 5 are found who agree to participate = probabity that out of first 19 exactly 4 agrees to partcipate * probabity that 20 the student accepts to participate

probabity that out of first 19 exactly 4 agrees to partcipate = (19C4)p4*(1-p)15

probabity that 20 the student accepts to participate = p

proabity that 20 students must be asked before 5 are found who agree to participate = (19C4)p4*(1-p)15 *p

= (19C4)p5*(1-p)15