A company selling substandard drugs to developing countries sold 2,000,000 capsules with 60,000 of them empty. If a person gets 100 randomly chosen capsules from this company, what is the expected number of empty capsules that this person will get?

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3.  A company selling substandard drugs to developing countries sold 2,000,000 capsules with 60,000 of them empty. If a person gets 100 randomly chosen capsules from this company, what is the expected number of empty capsules that this person will get?

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