A Company That Bakes Chocolate Chip Cookies Averages 5

question 27

Multiple Choice

A company that bakes chocolate chip cookies averages 5.2 chocolate chips per cookie. Assume that the number of chocolate chips per cookie follows the Poisson distribution. What is the probability that a randomly selected cookie will contain one or two chocolate chips?

• A)0.0596
• B)0.1697
• C)0.1033
• D)0.2020

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