Mathematics 9709 · AS & A Level · The Poisson distribution

The Poisson distribution — practice question

For a town of this kind, $76\%$ of cars have satellite navigation equipment installed. A random sample of $11$ cars is taken from the town.
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Work out the probability that fewer than $10$ of the cars in this sample have this equipment.

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