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A manufacturer of Christmas tree light bulbs knows that 3% of its bulbs are defective. Find the probability that a string of 100 lights contains at most four defective bulbs using both the binomial and Poisson distributions.

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Using Poisson Distribution and Binomial distribution of the probability comes out to be 0.8153and 0.8179respectively.

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Content Introduction

The binomial distribution determines the probability of looking at a specific quantity of a hit results in a specific quantity of trials

In a large population, the Poisson distribution is used to characterize the distribution of unusual events.

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 Explanation of Poisson Distribution

First let us use Poisson Distribution,

we are given, 3% of its bulbs are defective and a string of light contains100bulbs.

So the formula used here will be:

λ=npλ=100(0.03)λ=3

The distribution comes out to be 3

Now, the probability that a string of 100 lights contains at most four defective bulbs is:

P(X≤4)=P(X=0)+P(X=1)+P(X=2)+P(X=3)+P(X=4)P(X≤4)=300!e-3+311!e-3+322!e-3+333!e-3+344!e-3P(X≤4)=0.8153

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Explanation of Binomial Distribution

Using Binomial distribution , we are given, 3%of its bulbs are defective and a string of light contains 100bulbs. The distribution comes out to be:

P~B(100,0.03)where n=100,p=0.03

The probability that a string of 100 lights contains at most four defective bulbs is:

P(x≤4)=100C1(0.3)4(0.7)3+100C2(0.3)3(0.7)2+100C1(0.3)2(0.7)1+100C0(0.3)1P(x≤4)=0.8179

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