An Internet company located in Southern California has season tickets to the Los Angeles Lakers basketball games. The company president always invites one of the four vice presidents to attend games with him and claims he selects the person to attend at random. One of the four vice presidents has not been invited to attend any of the last five Laker's home games. What is the likelihood this could be due to chance?

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Answer:

0.2373

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability that a particular president is invited=1/4

Therefore the probabilty that one of the four does not get invited to attend any of the last is equal to Probabilty that any of the remaining VPs is invited to the last five:

[tex]=\frac{3}{4}^5\\=0.2373[/tex]