Question

In a binomial distribution $$B\left( {n,p = \frac{1}{4}} \right),$$    if the probability of at least one success is greater than or equal to $${\frac{9}{10}}$$ then $$n$$ is greater than

A. $$\frac{1}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 + {{\log }_{10}}3}}$$
B. $$\frac{9}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 - {{\log }_{10}}3}}$$
C. $$\frac{4}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 - {{\log }_{10}}3}}$$
D. $$\frac{1}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 - {{\log }_{10}}3}}$$  
Answer :   $$\frac{1}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 - {{\log }_{10}}3}}$$
Solution :
We have
$$\eqalign{ & P\left( {x \geqslant 1} \right) \geqslant \frac{9}{{10}} \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,1 - P\left( {x = 0} \right) \geqslant \frac{9}{{10}} \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,1 - {\,^n}{C_0}{\left( {\frac{1}{4}} \right)^0}{\left( {\frac{3}{4}} \right)^n} \geqslant \frac{9}{{10}} \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,1 - \frac{9}{{10}} \geqslant {\left( {\frac{3}{4}} \right)^n} \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,{\left( {\frac{3}{4}} \right)^n} \leqslant \left( {\frac{1}{{10}}} \right) \cr} $$
Taking log to the base $${\frac{3}{4}},$$ on both sides, we get
$$\eqalign{ & n{\log _{\frac{3}{4}}}\left( {\frac{3}{4}} \right) \geqslant {\log _{\frac{3}{4}}}\left( {\frac{1}{{10}}} \right) \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,n \geqslant { - \log _{\frac{3}{4}}}10 \cr & = \frac{{ - {{\log }_{10}}10}}{{{{\log }_{10}}\left( {\frac{3}{4}} \right)}} \cr & = \frac{{ - 1}}{{{{\log }_{10}}3 - {{\log }_{10}}4}} \cr & \Rightarrow \,\,n \geqslant \frac{1}{{{{\log }_{10}}4 - {{\log }_{10}}3}} \cr} $$

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Releted Question 1

Two fair dice are tossed. Let $$x$$ be the event that the first die shows an even number and $$y$$ be the event that the second die shows an odd number. The two events $$x$$ and $$y$$ are:

A. Mutually exclusive
B. Independent and mutually exclusive
C. Dependent
D. None of these
Releted Question 2

Two events $$A$$ and $$B$$ have probabilities 0.25 and 0.50 respectively. The probability that both $$A$$ and $$B$$ occur simultaneously is 0.14. Then the probability that neither $$A$$ nor $$B$$ occurs is

A. 0.39
B. 0.25
C. 0.11
D. none of these
Releted Question 3

The probability that an event $$A$$ happens in one trial of an experiment is 0.4. Three independent trials of the experiment are performed. The probability that the event $$A$$ happens at least once is

A. 0.936
B. 0.784
C. 0.904
D. none of these
Releted Question 4

If $$A$$ and $$B$$ are two events such that $$P(A) > 0,$$   and $$P\left( B \right) \ne 1,$$   then $$P\left( {\frac{{\overline A }}{{\overline B }}} \right)$$  is equal to
(Here $$\overline A$$ and $$\overline B$$ are complements of $$A$$ and $$B$$ respectively).

A. $$1 - P\left( {\frac{A}{B}} \right)$$
B. $$1 - P\left( {\frac{{\overline A }}{B}} \right)$$
C. $$\frac{{1 - P\left( {A \cup B} \right)}}{{P\left( {\overline B } \right)}}$$
D. $$\frac{{P\left( {\overline A } \right)}}{{P\left( {\overline B } \right)}}$$

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