In a printing press of a publication house, there is a small chance for any typing error in 20 pages, then the number of pages containing no error in printing two volumes of an Encyclopedia containing total 10000 pages are:
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In a printing press of a publication house, there is a small chance for any typing error in 20 pages, then the number of pages containing no error in printing two volumes of an Encyclopedia containing total 10000 pages are:
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Solution
✅ Correct Option: 3
For a block of 20 pages, , so .
10000 pages form 500 such blocks; error-free blocks , i.e. about pages.
Note: The stated chance applies per block of 20 pages, and we scale the Poisson result back to a page count.
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