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11.3 Exercise 4

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(See Exercise 5 from "Problems on Distribution and Density Functions"). In a thunderstorm in a national park there are 127 lightning strikes. Experience shows that the probability of of a lightning strike starting a fire is about 0.0083. Determine the expected number of fires.

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 11.3 Problems on Mathematical Expectation, exercise 4

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Adapted from Applied Probability © 2009 Paul E. Pfeiffer. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Applied Probability. Imported at revision d7a0420.