Mathematics 9709 · AS & A Level · The Poisson distribution

The Poisson distribution — practice question

In each year, the number of books read by members of a book club has the binomial distribution $B(12,\,0.7)$.
(i)[2]

State the largest number of books that a member of the book club could read in a given year and determine the probability that a member reads that many books.

(ii)[3]

Find the probability that a member reads fewer than $10$ books in one particular year.

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