A Company Has 125 Personal Computers

question 19

Multiple Choice

A company has 125 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025. To find the probability that exactly 20 of the computers will require repair on a given day, one will use what type of probability distribution?

• A) binomial distribution
• B) Poisson distribution
• C) all of the above
• D) none of the above

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