A book has 300 pages. For each page, whether it contains typing error has Bernoulli distribution B(1, 0.02). The events for each page to contain typing error are independent. What is (approximately) the probability that this book contains at most 3 pages with typing error?

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A book has 300 pages. For each page, whether it contains typing error has
Bernoulli distribution B(1, 0.02). The events for each page to contain typing error are
independent. What is (approximately) the probability that this book contains at most 3
pages with typing error?
Transcribed Image Text:A book has 300 pages. For each page, whether it contains typing error has Bernoulli distribution B(1, 0.02). The events for each page to contain typing error are independent. What is (approximately) the probability that this book contains at most 3 pages with typing error?
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