Records over several years show that the probability is .00003 that a car will have a flat

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Records over several years show that the probability is .00003 that a car will have a flat tire while driving through a long tunnel. About 16,000 cars use the tunnel each week. Determine the probability that 2 or more cars will have a flat next week (a) Using the Poisson approximation to the binomial.
(b) Using computer software to obtain the exact result.
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Statistics Principles And Methods

ISBN: 9780470904114

7th Edition

Authors: Richard A. Johnson, Gouri K. Bhattacharyya

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