Last Year, a Manufacturer Produced 350,000 DVD Players

Multiple Choice

Last year, a manufacturer produced 350,000 DVD players. Of these, approximately 1% were defective. Assume that a simple random sample of n = 140 players is drawn. Use the Poisson Approximation to the binomial distribution to compute the standard deviation of the number of DVD Players that were defective.

A) 1
B) 1.4
C) 48.3
D) 1.2