2% of the pens a machine makes are faulty. Using the Poisson distribution, what is the probability that a pack of 100 pens has no faulty pen? (Take $e^{-2} = 0.1353$ .)

0.06765

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0.1353

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0.2706

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0.98

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

Worth noting

0.98 is the chance that one pen is good, not all 100.

Ten questions from Binomial & Poisson Distributions, at your own pace.

Ten questions from Binomial & Poisson Distributions, at your own pace.

2% of the pens a machine makes are faulty. Using the Poisson distribution, what is the probability that a pack of 100 pens has no faulty pen? (Take e−2=0.1353e^{-2} = 0.1353e−2=0.1353.)