SCENARIO 6-8 A Company Has 125 Personal Computers. the Probability That Any

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SCENARIO 6-8
A company has 125 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a
given day is 0.15.
-Referring to Scenario 6-8 and assuming that the number of computers that requires repair on a
given day follows a binomial distribution, compute the probability that there will be less than 8
computers that require repair on a given day using a normal approximation.

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