Question: 6. (10 points) (Poisson Approximation) Line up 100 boxes. Given 500 balls, randomly throw a ball into one of the 100 boxes. Label the boxes

 6. (10 points) (Poisson Approximation) Line up 100 boxes. Given 500

6. (10 points) (Poisson Approximation) Line up 100 boxes. Given 500 balls, randomly throw a ball into one of the 100 boxes. Label the boxes n = 1, 2, 3, ... , 100. The surprising conclusion of this exercise is that there is a 50% chance of at least one of the 100 boxes is empty! a. Let Xn be 1 if the nth box is empty, and 0 if it contains at least one ball. Here, n = 1, 2, . . . , 100. The exact distribution of Xn is Bernoulli with probability of success b. Count the number of empty boxes with the random variable Y = _ Xn. The approximate distribution of Y is Poisson with mean c. The chance that Y not zero (that is, there is an empty box) is p =

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