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A Machine Wraps and Twists the Ends of a Wrapper

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A machine wraps and twists the ends of a wrapper for peppermint candy at a rate of 100 per minute.However,the machine malfunctions on the average of 1 per minute.Assume that the malfunctions are a Poisson distribution and let x denote the number of candies which are not wrapped due to the malfunction.What is the probability that between zero and four candies will be unwrapped in a given minute?


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