Question

pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of ibuprofen tablets and uses this acceptance sampling plan: randomly select and test 22 tablets, then accept the whole batch if there is at most one that doesn’t meet the required specifications. If a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? (Report answer as a decimal value accurate to four decimal places.) P(accept shipment) =

Answer 1

P(Whole shipment is accepted)

= P(Atmost one doesn't meet the specifications)

= binom.dist(1, 22, 0.04, True) [Excel Formula]

= 0.7808