An automobile manufacturer finds that 1 in every 2500 automobiles produced has a particular manufacturing defect. (a) Use a binomial distribution to find the probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars. (b) The Poisson distribution can be used to approximate the binomial distribution for large values of n and small values of p. Repeat (a) using a Poisson distribution and compare the results.

a) 0.1558 = 15.58% probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars.

b) 0.1557 = 15.57% probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars. These probabilities are very close, which means that the approximation works.

Step-by-step explanation:

Binomial distribution:

The binomial probability is the probability of exactly x successes on n repeated trials, and X can only have two outcomes.

In which is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.

And p is the probability of X happening.

Poisson distribution:

In a Poisson distribution, the probability that X represents the number of successes of a random variable is given by the following formula:

In which

x is the number of sucesses

e = 2.71828 is the Euler number

is the mean in the given interval.

To use the Poisson approximation for the binomial, we have that:

1 in every 2500 automobiles produced has a particular manufacturing defect.

This means that

a) Use a binomial distribution to find the probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars.

This is when . So

0.1558 = 15.58% probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars.

(b) The Poisson distribution can be used to approximate the binomial distribution for large values of n and small values of p.

Using the approximation:

. So

0.1557 = 15.57% probability of finding 4 cars with the defect in a random sample of 7000 cars. These probabilities are very close, which means that the approximation works.

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step-by-step explanation:

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