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kaid0807

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The local police department receives an average of two calls per hour. Use the Poisson distribution to determine the probability that in a randomly selected hour the number of calls is five.
 
  A) 0.0361 B) 0.0018 C) 0.0282 D) 0.0014

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Find the z-score having area 0.86 to its right under the standard normal curve; that is, find z 0.86 .
 
  A) -1.08 B) 1.08 C) 0.8051 D) 0.5557


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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