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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §4.6 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 16 · Probability · Discrete distributions

Poisson Distribution · Exercise 16

A manufacturer of Christmas tree light bulbs knows that 3% of its bulbs are defective. Find the probability that a string of 100 lights contains at most four defective bulbs using both the binomial and Poisson distributions.

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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §4.6 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 16

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