The Probability That a Car Will Have a Flat Tire

question 11

Multiple Choice

The probability that a car will have a flat tire while driving through a certain tunnel is 0.00005.Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to find the probability that among 14,000 cars passing through this tunnel,exactly two will have a flat tire.

• A)0.8783
• B)0.1217
• C)0.1460
• D)0.1703
• E)0.1947

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