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waynest

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A company has 125 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025. To find the probability that exactly 20 of the computers will require repair on a given day, one will use what type of probability distribution?
 
  A) Binomial distribution B) Poisson distribution
  C) Hypergeometric distribution D) None of the above

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A professor receives, on average, 24.7 e-mails from students the day before the midterm exam. To compute the probability of receiving at least 10 e-mails on such a day, he will use what type of probability distribution?
 
  A) Binomial distribution B) Poisson distribution
  C) Hypergeometric distribution D) None of the above.


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upturnedfurball

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

A

Answer to Question 2

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waynest

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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