SOLUTION: Country "Text Messages" Population A "66 billion", "1320 million" B, "28 billion", "88 million" C,

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Question 440997: Country "Text Messages" Population
A "66 billion", "1320 million"
B, "28 billion", "88 million"
C, "14 billion", "292 million"
D, "9 billion", "68 million"
Suppose messages are sent randomly to the people in each country. That is, suppose that the 66 billion messages sent in country A had been randomly delivered to the 1.3 billion people in country A. What's the pobability that a person does not get a tsxt message?

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Country "Text Messages" Population
A "66 billion", "1320 million"
B, "28 billion", "88 million"
C, "14 billion", "292 million"
D, "9 billion", "68 million"
Suppose messages are sent randomly to the people in each country. That is, suppose that the 66 billion messages sent in country A had been randomly delivered to the 1.3 billion people in country A. What's the pobability that a person does not get a tsxt message?
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P = (1320-66)/1320 = 0.95
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