A hybrid-grower is experiencing trouble with corn borers. A random check of 5,000 ears revealed
The following: many of the ears contained no borers. Some ears had one borer; a few had two
Borers; and so on. The distribution of the number of borers per ear approximated the Poisson
Distribution. The grower counted 3,500 borers in the 5,000 ears. What is the probability that an ear
Of corn selected at random will contain no borers?
A) 0.3476
B) 0.4966
C) 1.000
D) 0.0631
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