Use the following information to answer the question. A pescatarian is a person who eats fish and seafood but no other animal. An event planner does some research and finds that approximately 2.75% of the people in the area where a large event is to be held are pescatarian. Treat the 250 guests expected at the event as a simple random sample from the local population of about 150,000.
-Suppose the event planner assumes that only 1.6% of the guests will be pescatarian so he orders 4pescatarian meals. What is the approximate probability that he will havetoo manypescatarianmeals? Round to the nearest thousandth.
A) 0.387
B) 0.113
C) 0.613
D) 0.245

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The probability of having too many pescatarian meals is calculated using the binomial distribution with n = 250 and p = 0.0275. The probability of having 4 or fewer pescatarian guests is approximately 0.113.

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