A bag contains 5 balls: 3 blue, 1 red, and 1 yellow. You select a ball at random 4 times, replacing the ball after each selection. Calculate the theoretical probability of getting a blue ball exactly 3 times

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Answer:

[tex] P(X=3)[/tex]

And replacing we got:

[tex]P(X=3)=(4C3)(0.3)^3 (1-0.3)^{4-3}=0.0756[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Let X the random variable of interest "number of times that we select a blue ball", on this case we now that:

[tex]X \sim Binom(n=4, p=3/10)[/tex]

The probability is always the same since we replace the ball selected in each trial.

The probability mass function for the Binomial distribution is given as:

[tex]P(X)=(nCx)(p)^x (1-p)^{n-x}[/tex]

Where (nCx) means combinatory and it's given by this formula:

[tex]nCx=\frac{n!}{(n-x)! x!}[/tex]

And we want to find this probability:

[tex] P(X=3)[/tex]

And replacing we got:

[tex]P(X=3)=(4C3)(0.3)^3 (1-0.3)^{4-3}=0.0756[/tex]