Last Year, a Manufacturer Produced 950,000 DVD Players $6 \%$ Were Defective

question 69

Multiple Choice

Last year, a manufacturer produced 950,000 DVD players. Of these, approximately $6 \%$ were defective. Assume that a simple random sample of $n = 160$ players is drawn. Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to compute the standard deviation of the number of DVD players that were defective.

• A) 3.1
• B) 0.1
• C) 9.6
• D) 6

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