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4.6 Exercise 1

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The average number of fish caught in an hour is eight. Of interest is the number of fish caught in 15 minutes. The time interval of interest is 15 minutes. What is the average number of fish caught in 15 minutes?

OpenStax Statistics, 4.6 Poisson Distribution (Optional), exercise 1

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