A manufacturer of power lawn mowers buys 1-horsepower, two-cycle engines in lots of 1000 from a supplier.

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A manufacturer of power lawn mowers buys 1-horsepower, two-cycle engines in lots of 1000 from a supplier. She then equips each of the mowers produced by her plant with one of the engines. History shows that the probability of any one engine from that supplier being defective is .001. In a shipment of 1000 engines, what is the probability that none is defective?

Three are defective? Four are defective?

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Introduction To Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9780357114469

15th Edition

Authors: William Mendenhall Iii , Robert Beaver , Barbara Beaver

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