Suppose that a book with n pages contains on the average λ misprints per page. What is the probability that there will be at least m pages which contains more than k misprints?

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Suppose that a book with n pages contains on the average λ misprints per page. What is the probability that there will be at least m pages which contains more than k misprints?

P.S. The answer from the book has some summation of binomial pmf with p and q composed of Poisson pmf summation.

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