Publishers work hard to minimizw the number of errors in a text.  Mr.
Carmen satistics editor reports that the mean number of errors per
chapter is 0.8.  What is the probabilty that there are less than 2
errors in a particular chapter?

---

Request for Question Clarification by richard-ga on 13 May 2005 13:32 PDT

I was about to submit the following answer when my conscience attacked me.
Perhaps you can close this question and submit a new one to the
attention of Researcher elmarto-ga so that he or she can be paid for
this work?
-------------------------------------------------
Hello and thank you for your question.

The probability of less than 2 errors is 0.8087

My Google search led me to
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=513745
where you will find the solution explained in detail, and some others as well.

Search terms used:
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-01,GGLD:en&q=%22probability+that+there+are+less+than+2+errors%22

Cheers

Google Answers Researcher
Richard-ga

Hello and thank you for your question.

The probability of less than 2 errors is 0.8087

My Google search led me to
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=513745
where you will find the solution explained in detail, and some others as well.

Search terms used:
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-01,GGLD:en&q=%22probability+that+there+are+less+than+2+errors%22

Cheers

Google Answers Researcher
Richard-ga