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In a book of 500 pages, there are 500 misprinting errors, find the probability of at most three misprinting 3 pages selected at random the book.

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Hint: This problem will be solved using Poisson distribution, with λ=500500=1 . A random variable X is to follow a Poisson Distribution if it assumes only non-negative values and its probability mass function is given by: P(X=x)=eλλxx!;x=0,1,2.....;λ>0. Using this find the probability of at most three misprinting 3 pages is given by: P(X3)=P(X=0)+P(X=1)+P(X=2)+P(X=3).

Complete step by step answer:
It is given in the question that in a book 500 pages are there out of which 500 misprinting errors are there. So the average number of errors per page in the book is given by lambda, λ=500500=1. We need to find the probability of at most three misprinting in three pages that is we have to calculate, P(X3)=P(X=0)+P(X=1)+P(X=2)+P(X=3)........(1)
Hence using Poisson probability law, the probability of x errors per page is given by:
P(X=x)=eλλxx!
  =e(1)(1)xx!;x=0,1,2,3
=e1x!;x=0,1,2,3 as (1)x=1
Now calculating P(X=0),P(X=1),P(X=2),P(X=3) separately by using the above expression and then substituting these values in equation (1) we will get the required probability.
P(X=0)=e10!=e11=e1as factorial of zero is 1.
=0.3678(approximately)
Therefore, P(X=0)=0.3678...........(2)
Now we will calculate the value of P(X=1)
P(X=1)=e11!=e1
=0.3678
Thus, P(X=1)=0.3678...........(3)
Now we will calculate the value of P(X=2)
P(X=2)=e12!=e12=0.36782=0.1839
Thus we get P(X=2)=0.1839...........(4)
Now we will calculate the value of P(X=3)
P(X=3)=e13!=e16=0.36786=0.0613
Thus we get P(X=3)=0.0613...........(5)
Putting the values of P(X=0),P(X=1),P(X=2),P(X=3)from equation (2), (3), (4) and (5) in equation (1) we get,
P(X3)=0.3678+0.3678+0.1839+0.0613=0.9808
Therefore, P(X3)= 0.9808. Hence, the probability of at most three misprinting in three pages is 0.9808 approximately.

Note:
A random variable X is to follow a Poisson Distribution if it assumes only non-negative values and its probability mass function is given by: P(X=x)=eλλxx!;x=0,1,2.....;λ>0. In Poisson distribution λ>0 and in this question λ=500500=1 which is greater than 0, that is why we have used Poisson distribution.