Asked by Derrion Whitehead on Sep 26, 2024

A community college has 150 word processors.The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025.To find the probability that exactly 25 of the word processors will require repair,one will use what type of probability distribution?

A) Normal distribution
B) Poisson distribution
C) Binomial distribution
D) None of these choices.

Poisson Distribution

A distribution for predicting the probability of a given number of events occurring over a fixed interval of time or space.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters or assumptions.

  • Differentiate among various probability distributions and identify the appropriate contexts for their application.