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In a hurdle race, a player has to cross 10 hurdles. The probability that he will clear each hurdle is. What is the probability that he will knock down fewer than 2 hurdles?

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Solution

Let p and q respectively be the probabilities that the player will clear and knock down the hurdle.

Let X be the random variable that represents the number of times the player will knock down the hurdle.

Therefore, by binomial distribution, we obtain

P (X = x) =

P (player knocking down less than 2 hurdles) = P (X < 2)

= P (X = 0) + P (X = 1)

=

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