Atraffic light near a museum is green for 30 seconds, yellow for 5 seconds, and red for 15 seconds. if 8 vehicles approach the signal, the probability that 3 of them are stopped by the red light is .

  about 0.254

Step-by-step explanation:

The light is red for 0.3 of the period, so that is the probability one car is stopped. Probability 3 cars are stopped and 5 are not is 0.3^3·0.7^5, about 0.004538. In the group of 8 cars, there are 56 different ways 3 of the cars can be stopped, so your overall probability could be 56·0.004538 ≈ 0.254.

Comment on the question

Many factors go into a driver's decision to stop at a light. Many factors go into the distribution of arrival times at a light. Here, the problem is only tractable if we assume that cars arrive at the light individually and at random times with respect to the light's fixed 50-second cycle. (This is possibly the case only early in the morning hours when traffic is at its lightest (not associated with bar closings or night shift changes).)

The above answer is correct: 0.254

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answer: about 22.67

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