A recent survey found that about 72.5% of all gasoline purchases at a certain service station chain are paid with a credit or debit card. If 300 gasoline purchases completed at this chain are randomly selected, find the probability that at most 210 of those purchases are paid with a credit or debit card.

18.28% probability that at most 210 of those purchases are paid with a credit or debit card.

Step-by-step explanation:

Binomial probability distribution

Probability of exactly x sucesses on n repeated trials, with p probability.

Can be approximated to a normal distribution, using the expected value and the standard deviation.

The expected value of the binomial distribution is:

The standard deviation of the binomial distribution is:

Normal probability distribution

Problems of normally distributed samples can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean and standard deviation , the zscore of a measure X is given by:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

When we are approximating a binomial distribution to a normal one, we have that , .

In this problem, we have that:

So

Find the probability that at most 210 of those purchases are paid with a credit or debit card.

Using continuity correction, this is , which is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 210.5. So

has a pvalue of 0.1828

18.28% probability that at most 210 of those purchases are paid with a credit or debit card.

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