Suppose the number of invasive carp in one mile of river is distributed according to the Poisson distribution with a mean of 8 carp per mile. Use the normal approximation to the Poisson to find the probability of fewer than 70 carp being found in a 10 mile stretch of river.

First, without the continuity correction:

Second, with the continuity correction

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