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Q88Section III (Statistics)88 of 145

Mixture mean: 0.4×5+0.6×70.4\times5+0.6\times7

The number of misprints in the first book is Poisson with mean 5, in the second Poisson with mean 7. A book is chosen by a uniform random number over (0,1)(0,1): below 0.40.4 the first book, otherwise the second. What is the expected number of misprints that a reader will come across?

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