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Aboxcontains9twoinchscrews,ofwhich6haveaPhillipsheadand3havearegularhead.Supposethatyouselect3screwsrandomlyfromthebox.WhatistheprobabilitythattherewillbemorethanonePhillipsheadscrewunderawithoutreplacementscenario? my work: P(x > 1) = P(x = 2)+P(x = 3) or P(x > 1) = 1 - P(x=1) n=3, p= 6/9= .6667 binomial
Aboxcontains9twoinchscrews,ofwhich6haveaPhillipsheadand3havearegularhead.Supposethatyouselect3screwsrandomlyfromthebox.WhatistheprobabilitythattherewillbemorethanonePhillipsheadscrewunderawithoutreplacementscenario?
my work:
P(x > 1) = P(x = 2)+P(x = 3)
or
P(x > 1) = 1 - P(x=1)
n=3, p= 6/9= .6667
binomial distribution: P(X=x) = nCx (p^x) (1 - p)^n-x
P(x = 2) = 3C2(.6667^2)(1-.6667)^1 = .4444
P(x = 3) = 3C3(.6667^3)(1-.6667)^0= .2963 sum both = .7407
or
1 - P(x=1) = 1 - 3C1(.6667^1)(1-.6667)^2 = .7778
i am lost as to why I got 2 different answers here
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