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Mathematics (AS & A Level) · May / June 2017 · Paper 72 · Question 2

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Javier writes an article containing 52 460 words. He plans to upload the article to his website, but he knows that this process sometimes introduces errors. He assumes that for each word in the uploaded version of his article, the probability that it contains an error is 0.000 08. The number of words containing an error is denoted by X.

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