The Nationwide Motel Company has determined that 70 percent of all calls for motel reservations request nonsmoking rooms. Recently, the customer service manager for the company randomly selected 25 calls. Assuming that the distribution of calls requesting nonsmoking rooms is described by a binomial distribution, the probability that fewer than 5 customers will request smoking rooms is approximately 0.09.

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Using the binomial distribution with n=25 and p=0.7 for nonsmoking rooms, the probability of fewer than 5 customers requesting smoking rooms (which means 21 or more requesting nonsmoking) is approximately 0.09.

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