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Suppose the number of typos on a typical page of manuscript is Poisson distributed with mean 2.1. The probability of no more than 4 typos on a page is closest to which of the following?

a. 0.938
b. 0.839
c. 0.764
d. 0.901

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The probability of no more than 4 typos on a page is closest to a. 0.938

How to solve the problem

We can solve this problem through the use of Microsoft excel. To solve this we would have to use this excel formula

POISSON.DIST(4, 2.1 , 1)

where 4 is the probability

2.1 is the mean

Hence

P(X ≤ 4 ) = POISSON.DIST(4, 2.1 , 1)

= 0.937873885

this is approximately

0.938

The excel output is added as an attachment

Suppose the number of typos on a typical page of manuscript is Poisson distributed-example-1
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