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asd123

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A naturalist leads whale watch trips every morning in March. The number of whales seen has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 3.1. Find the probability that on a randomly selected trip, the number of whales seen is 4.
 
  A) 0.6934 B) 0.1733 C) 0.2947 D) 1.0401

Question 2

A computer salesman averages 0.5 sales per week. Use the Poisson distribution to find the probability that in a randomly selected week the number of computers sold is 0.
 
  A) 0.6672 B) 0.6065 C) 0.3033 D) 0.7582


nikmaaacs

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Reply #1 on: Aug 1, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B


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