About 2% of the bulbs produced by a company data are defective. A merchant receives a lot of 500 of these bulbs. Using the Poisson approximation, find the probability... a) that there are 5 defective ones. b) there are 8 defective ones. c) there is at least one defective.

About 2% of the bulbs produced by a company data are defective. A merchant receives a lot of 500 of these bulbs. Using the Poisson approximation, find the probability... a) that there are 5 defective ones. b) there are 8 defective ones. c) there is at least one defective.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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About 2% of the bulbs produced by a company
data are defective. A merchant receives a lot of 500
of these bulbs. Using the Poisson approximation,
find the probability...
a) that there are 5 defective ones.
b) there are 8 defective ones.
c) there is at least one defective.

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