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4.6 Exercise 10

Avg difficulty 2.5

According to Baydin, an email management company, an email user gets, on average, 147 emails per day. Let X = the number of emails an email user receives per day. The discrete random variable X takes on the values x = 0, 1, 2 . . . . The random variable X has a Poisson distribution: X ~ P(147). The mean is 147 emails.

  1. What is the probability that an email user receives exactly 160 emails per day?
  2. What is the probability that an email user receives at most 160 emails per day?
  3. What is the standard deviation?

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