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4.4 Exercise 45

Avg difficulty 2.5

A warehouse has a stock of n items of a certain kind, r of which are defective. Two of the items are chosen at random, without replacement. What is the probability that at least one is defective? Show that for large n the number is very close to that for selection with replacement, which corresponds to two Bernoulli trials with pobability p=r/np = r / n of success on any trial.

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 4.4 Problems on Independence of Events, exercise 45

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