Q. Ten eggs are drawn successively with replacement from a lot containing defective eggs. Then, the probability that there is atleast one defective egg.

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Solution:

Let denote the number of defective eggs in the 10 eggs drawn. Since, the drawing is done with replacement, the trials are Bernoulli trials.Clearly, has the binomial distribution with and
Therefore,
Now, (atleast one defective egg)