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In a book of 500 pages, it is found that there are 250 typing errors. Assume that poisson low holds for the number of errors per page. Then the probability that a random sample of 2 pages will contain no error, is

A

`e^(-0.3)`

B

`e^(-0.5)`

C

`e^(-1)`

D

`e^(-2)`

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C
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