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4.6 Exercise 8

Avg difficulty 2.5

An emergency room at a particular hospital gets an average of five patients per hour. A doctor wants to know the probability that the ER gets more than five patients per hour. Give the reason why this would be a Poisson distribution.

OpenStax Statistics, 4.6 Poisson Distribution (Optional), exercise 8

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