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Not sure about your suggestion above, here is what I think, see below. Any opinions?To get a total of 8 tightly packed from the first and second selection we need to add up binomial probabilities. 1) x =0 from n1 and x=8 from n2 2) x=1 from n1 and x=7 from n2 3) x=2 from n1 and...

Thanks but not sure how you got the 4 or 5 tightly packed to add up to 8. Remember for second sample to be taken there must be 0 or 1 or 2 tightly packed. I may have missed the point,but could you explain. Thanks.

Please help with a hint of doing his question, I have drawn the diagram but still confused. Q)In a food production process, packaged items are sampled as they come off a production line. A random sample of 5 items from each large production batch is checked to see whether each item is...