300 misprints in 500 pages.Probability of a misprint in a given page?

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300 misprints in 500 pages.Probability of a misprint in a given page?

probability that a given page contains exactly one misprint

2006-11-24 10:08:16 · 3 answers · asked by guru s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics

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Probability is 3 out of 5

2006-11-24 10:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by sciteach9 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋

impossible. one page can contain all the misprints, or 300 pages can each have one misprint.so prob is between
1/500 to 298/500. or 300/500
it can not be 299 because it implies the last misprint is on its own page.
deep thought.

2006-11-24 18:22:17 · answer #2 · answered by rewrite_h35 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Sounds like a Poisson distribution.

2006-11-24 18:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by modulo_function 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋