Statistics - Poisson Distribution
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Given 5,000 light bulbs from an outside supplier. If past performance data indicates that these have been 3% defective, and a random sample of 40 parts are drawn from the shipment what is the probability that you will find more than 2 defective parts? Use the Poisson distribution to answer this question.
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Expected (Mean) number of defective bulbs in the sample of 40 bulbs = 3% of 40= ...
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