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saraeharris

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on: Jun 24, 2018
A community college has 150 word processors. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025 . To find the probability that exactly 25 of the word processors will require repair, one will use what type of probability distribution?
 a. Normal distribution
  b. Poisson distribution
  c. Binomial distribution
  d. None of these choices.

Question 2

On the average, 1.6 customers per minute arrive at any one of the checkout counters of Sunshine food market. What type of probability distribution can be used to find out the probability that there will be no customers arriving at a checkout counter in 10 minutes?
 a. Poisson distribution
  b. Normal distribution
  c. Binomial distribution
  d. None of these choices.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A


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