Biologists would like to catch costa rican glass frogs for breeding. There is a 70% probability that a glass frog they catch is male. If 10 glass frogs of a certain species are caught, what are the chances that they will have at least 2 male and 2 female frogs? What is the expected value of the number of female frogs caught?

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Daphne Barrett

Biology

9 July, 23:47

Biologists would like to catch costa rican glass frogs for breeding. There is a 70% probability that a glass frog they catch is male. If 10 glass frogs of a certain species are caught, what are the chances that they will have at least 2 male and 2 female frogs? What is the expected value of the number of female frogs caught?

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Jaliyah Sheppard · Answer 1

The Chances of Frog Gender and Expected Value

A biologist would like to catch Costa Rican glass frogs for breeding.

There is given data which indicates that if 10 glass frogs of a certain species are caught then there are many chances that they will have at least 2 male and 2 female frogs. The expected value of the number of female frogs caught is 2.