Chapter 6: Q.3 (page 339)
Spell-checking software catches 鈥渘onword errors,鈥 which result in a string of letters that is not a word, as when 鈥渢he鈥 is typed as 鈥渢eh.鈥 When undergraduates are asked to write a 250-word essay (without spell-checking), the number X of nonword errors has the following distribution:
(a) Write the event 鈥渁t least one nonword error鈥 in terms of . What is the probability of this event?
(b) Describe the event in words. What is its probability? What is the probability that?
Short Answer
(a)
(b)

