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Customers at a supermarket pay for their purchases either by cash or credit card. The probability of a randomly chosen customer paying by credit card is 0.3. Find the probability that, on a randomly chosen day, there are more than 6 customers among the first 20 customers who pay by credit card and the fifth customer is the second customer who does so.

[2006/ACJC/II/10(i)]

CJC · Discussion · Question 2

Separate the first four customers, the fifth customer, and the final fifteen.

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