80% of the books in a cupboard are academic books. If there are 50 books in cupboard, find the probability that 40 books taken at random from the the academic books, by using cupboard are (i) the binomial distribution (ii) the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution.

80% of the books in a cupboard are academic books. If there are 50 books in cupboard, find the probability that 40 books taken at random from the the academic books, by using cupboard are (i) the binomial distribution (ii) the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution.

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80% of the books in a cupboard are academic books. If there are 50 books in
cupboard, find the probability that 40 books taken at random from the
the
academic books, by using
cupboard are
(i)
the binomial distribution
(ii)
the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution.

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