An 800 page book has 400 misprints. If the misprints are distributed uniformly throughout the book and can be estimated by the Poisson distribution, calculate the probability that exactly 2 misprints happen.
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Since there are 400 misprints in an 800-page book, the average number of misprints per page is 400/800 = 0.5. Show more…
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