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lbcchick

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Suppose you know that the number of complaints coming into a phone center averages 3 every ten minutes. Assume that the number of calls follows the Poisson distribution.
 
  What is the probability that there are exactly three calls during the next ten minutes?

Question 2

The conditional probability of A, given B, must be at least as large as the probability of A.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false


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chinwesucks

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 = 3, P(X = 3 ) = 0.224

Answer to Question 2

FALSE


lbcchick

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

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