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Public Citizen’s Health Research Group studied the serious disciplinary actions that were taken during a recent year against nonfederal medical doctors in the U.S. The American average was 3.05 serious actions per 1,000 doctors. Assume that the Canadian average is the same; moreover, assume that the numbers of serious actions per 1,000 doctors is Poisson distributed.

a. What is the probability of randomly selecting 1,000 Canadian doctors and finding no serious actions taken?

b. What is the probability of randomly selecting 2,000 Canadian doctors and finding six serious actions taken?

c. Assume that British Columbia has an average of 1.6 serious actions per 1,000 doctors. What is the probability of randomly selecting 3,000 British Columbia doctors and finding fewer than seven serious actions taken?

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