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5.3 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

In a small city, the number of automobile accidents occur with a Poisson distribution at an average of three per week.

  1. Calculate the probability that at most two accidents occur in any given week.
  2. What is the probability that there are at least two weeks between any two accidents?

OpenStax Statistics, 5.3 The Exponential Distribution (Optional), exercise 17

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