The Probability That a Particular Brand of Smoke Alarm Will

question 174

Multiple Choice

The probability that a particular brand of smoke alarm will malfunction in the presence of smoke is 0.002.A batch of 100,000 such alarms was produced by independent production lines.Which of the following distributions would you use to figure out the probability that at most 5,000 of them will malfunction in case of a fire?

• A)Hypergeometric distribution.
• B)Poisson distribution.
• C)Binomial distribution.
• D)Uniform distribution.

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