A person buys a lottery ticket in 50 lotteries, in each of which his chance of winning prize is 1100. What is the probability that he will win a prize.
atleast twice ?
Let X denotes the number of times that the person wins the prize, Here, it is a case of Bernoulli trails with n=50, p=1/100 and q=1-p=1-1100=99100.
∴P(X=r)=nCrprqn−r=50Cr(1100)r.(99100)50−r
P (he wins atleast twice)= P(X≥2)=1−P(X=0,1)=1−[P(0)+P(1)]
=1−(50C0p0q50+50C1p1q49)=1−(q50+50pq49)
=1−q49(p+50p)=1−(99100)49 (99100+50×1100)=1−149100(99100)49