As a telecommunications satellite goes over the horizon, stored messages are relayed to the next satellite which is still in position. however, the probability is 0.01 that an interruption will occur, and the relay transmission will be lost. out of 200 such relays, let r be the random variable that represents the number of transmissions that are lost.
write a brief but complete discussion in which you explain why the poisson approximation to the binomial would be appropriate.