Question: Assume that each of 2000 individuals living near a nuclear power plant is exposed to particles of a certain kind of radiation at an average rate of one per week. Suppose that each hit by a particle is harmless with probability 1 - 10-5, and produces a tumor with probability 10-5. Find the approximate of:
a) The total number of tumors produced in the whole population over a one-year period by this kind of radiation:
b) The total number of individuals acquiring at least one tumor over a year from this radiation.
Sketch the histograms of each distribution, and find the means and SD's.