A Community College Has 150 Word Processors

question 73

Multiple Choice

A community college has 150 word processors.The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025.To find the probability that exactly 25 of the word processors will require repair,one will use what type of probability distribution?

• A)Normal distribution
• B)Poisson distribution
• C)Binomial distribution
• D)None of these choices.

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