MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
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ISBN: 9781119256830
Author: Amos Gilat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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  1. A new drug is found to be 70% effective in curing a certain kind of skin illness. From a pool of patients who had received the drug after being diagnosed with the illness, 12 of them are randomly selected. Assume a considerable amount of time has passed between a patient being administered the drug and the selection then occuring (to ensure the drug's effectiveness or lackthereof in treating a patient). Answer the following:
     
    a) What is the likelihood that exactly 5 of the twelve patients chosen have been cured of the illness?
    b) a) What is the likelihood that at most 5 of the twelve patients chosen have been cured of the illness?
    c) What is the expected average number of patients that have been cured of the illness assuming the experiment (randomly selecting 12 patients) is repeated many times over?
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