A Hybrid-Grower Is Experiencing Trouble with Corn Borers

Multiple Choice

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