The Probability That a Car Will Have a Flat Tire

question 109

Multiple Choice

The probability that a car will have a flat tire while driving through a certain tunnel is 0.00008.Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution to find the probability that among 16,000 cars passing through this tunnel,at least one will have a flat tire.

• A)0.7220
• B)0.6441
• C)0.2780
• D)1.6462
• E)0.3559

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