The Probability That a Car Will Have a Flat Tire

question 154

Multiple Choice

The probability that a car will have a flat tire while driving through a certain tunnel is 0.00006.Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to find the probability that among 13,000 cars passing through this tunnel,at most two will have a flat tire.

• A)0.1394
• B)0.1840
• C)0.9554
• D)0.8160
• E)0.8606

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