Step 1 :Given that the drug cures the disease 84% of the time, we are asked to find the probability that less than 76 patients are cured. This is a binomial problem, but since the sample size is large, we can use the normal approximation to the binomial distribution.
Step 2 :The mean of the binomial distribution is \(np\), and the standard deviation is \(\sqrt{np(1-p)}\), where \(n\) is the number of trials (in this case, the number of patients), and \(p\) is the probability of success (in this case, the probability that a patient is cured).
Step 3 :Let's calculate the mean and standard deviation. Given \(n = 100\) and \(p = 0.84\), we find that the mean is \(np = 84.0\) and the standard deviation is \(\sqrt{np(1-p)} = 3.6660605559646724\).
Step 4 :We can now use the normal distribution to find the probability that less than 76 patients are cured. We calculate the z-score using the formula \(z = \frac{x - \mu}{\sigma}\), where \(x\) is the number of successes, \(\mu\) is the mean, and \(\sigma\) is the standard deviation. Substituting the given values, we get \(z = -2.3185650837574188\).
Step 5 :Finally, we find the probability corresponding to this z-score from the standard normal distribution table, which is 0.0102093150867656.
Step 6 :Thus, the probability that the claim will be rejected, assuming that the manufacturer's claim is true, is approximately \(\boxed{0.0102}\).