Question 5.11

5.11 Misleading résumés.

In Exercise 4.27 (page 190), it was stated that 18.4% of executive job applicants lied on their résumés. Suppose an executive job hunter randomly selects five résumés from an executive job applicant pool. Let be the number of misleading résumés found in the sample.

  1. What are the possible values of ?
  2. Use the binomial formula to find the .
  3. Use the binomial formula to find the probability of at least one misleading résumé in the sample.

5.11

(a) . (b) 0.1840. (c) 0.6382.