A supplier of heavy construction equipment has found that new customers are normally obtained through customer requests for a sales call and that the probability of a sale of a particular piece of equipment is 0.15. If the supplier has six pieces of the equipment available for sale, what is the probability that it will take fewer than eight customer contacts to clear the inventory? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

A supplier of heavy construction equipment has found that new customers are normally obtained through customer requests for a sales call and that the probability of a sale of a particular piece of equipment is 0.15. If the supplier has six pieces of the equipment available for sale, what is the probability that it will take fewer than eight customer contacts to clear the inventory? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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