# Solved (Free): Of the 28 professors in a certain department, 18 drive foreign and 10 drive domestic cars. If five of these professors are selected at random

#### ByDr. Raju Chaudhari

Apr 3, 2021

Of the 28 professors in a certain department, 18 drive foreign and 10 drive domestic cars. If five of these professors are selected at random, what is the probability that at least three of them drive foreign cars?

#### Solution

The probability that a randomly seleceted professor drive foreign car is $p = \frac{18}{28}=0.6429$.

$n = 5$ professors are selected at random.

The random variable $X$ is the number of professors who drive foreign car is $X=0,1,2,3,4,5$.

So $X\sim B(5, 0.6429)$ distribution.

The probability mass function of $X$ is
\begin{aligned} P(X=x) &= \binom{5}{x} (0.6429)^x (1-0.6429)^{5-x},\\ &\quad x=0,1,\cdots, 5. \end{aligned}

The probability that at least three professor drive foreign car is $P(X\geq 3)$.

Thus

\begin{aligned} P(X\geq 3) & =\sum_{x=3}^{5} P(x)\\ & =\sum_{x=3}^{5}\binom{5}{x}(0.6429)^x(1-0.6429)^{5-x}\\ & = (0.3389)+(0.305)+(0.1098) \\ & = 0.7537 \end{aligned}

Hence the probability that at least three of them drive foreign car is $0.7537$.