The probability that an employee of the manufacturing concern under consideration is fired because of gross negligence is 0.2%. Use an appropriate approximation to compute the probability that in a random sample of 1,000 employees more than two will be fired because of gross negligence.
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Since we are dealing with a large sample size (1,000 employees) and a small probability (0.2% or 0.002), we can use the Poisson distribution to approximate the probability. The Poisson distribution is suitable for modeling the number of events (in this case, Show more…
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