[Math] how to find standard deviation when given a percentage

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An electronics company's biggest seller is a talking toy. Of the toys produced, 4% have a defective voicebox. A quality control tech randomly collects 250 of the toys at the end of the production line for inspection. The standard deviation of the number of defective toys is ____?

Best Answer

The number of defective toys is a binomial $(250,0.04)$ random variable - each toy is treated as an independent Bernoulli trial where the "success" is voicebox defect. It suffices to use the standard formula for variance of a binomial variable.