According to estimates by the office of the Treasury Inspector General of IRS, approximately 0.0625 of the tax returns filed are fraudulent or will contain errors that are purposely made to cheat the IRS. In a random sample of 224 independent returns from this year, what is the probability that exactly 10 will be fraudulent or will contain errors that are purposely made to cheat the IRS?   Question 13 options:   1)  0.0653   2)  0.1672   3)  0.8328   4)  0.0326   5)  0.9347

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According to estimates by the office of the Treasury Inspector General of IRS, approximately 0.0625 of the tax returns filed are fraudulent or will contain errors that are purposely made to cheat the IRS. In a random sample of 224 independent returns from this year, what is the probability that exactly 10 will be fraudulent or will contain errors that are purposely made to cheat the IRS?
 

Question 13 options:

 

1) 

0.0653
 

2) 

0.1672
 

3) 

0.8328
 

4) 

0.0326
 

5) 

0.9347
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