SOLUTION: 11) The Information Commons in the main library has 150 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.02. To find the probability

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Question 380789: 11) The Information Commons in the main library has 150 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.02. To find the probability that exactly 25 of the computers will require repair, one would use what type of probability distribution?
A. Hypergeometric distribution
B. Poisson distribution
C. Normal distribution
D. Binomial distribution


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The Information Commons in the main library has 150 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.02. To find the probability that exactly 25 of the computers will require repair, one would use what type of probability distribution?
A. Hypergeometric distribution
B. Poisson distribution
C. Normal distribution
D. Binomial distribution
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Ans: D
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Stan H.