A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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Independently on each page, the number of typing errors per page in the final draft of a thesis has a Poisson distribution with average 0.06. Find the probability that a randomly chosen page will contain one typing error. round to four decimals
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Transcribed Image Text:Independently on each page, the number of typing errors per page in the final draft of a thesis has a Poisson distribution with average 0.06. Find the probability that a randomly chosen page will contain one typing error. round to four decimals
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