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Typing errors in a text are either nonword errors (as when \"the\" is typed as \

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Question

Typing errors in a text are either nonword errors (as when "the" is typed as "teh") or word errors that result in a real but incorrect word. Spell-checking software will catch nonword errors but not word errors. Human proofreaders catch 70% of word errors. You ask a fellow student to proofread an essay in which you have deliberately made 12 word errors.

Typing errors in a text are either nonword errors (as when "the" is typed as "teh") or word errors that result in a real but incorrect word. Spell-checking software will catch nonword errons but not word errors. Human proofreaders catch 70% of word errors. You ask a fellow student to proofread an essay in which you have deliberately made 12 word errors.

Explanation / Answer

This will be a binomial distribution with parameters:

n = 12, p = 0.70

So,

P(3 or more)

= 1 - P(X < 3)

= 1 - binomdist(2, 12, 0.70, TRUE) [Excel Formula]

= 0.9998