Last Year, a Manufacturer Produced 1,850,000 DVD Players $n = 170$

question 62

Multiple Choice

Last year, a manufacturer produced 1,850,000 DVD players. Of these, approximately 3 were defective. Assume that a simple random sample of $n = 170$ players is drawn. Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to compute the probability that fewer than four of the 170 DVD players were defective.

• A) 0.2452
• B) 0.2513
• C) 0.1348
• D) 0.1165

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