The number of burglaries in a city is thought to have a Poisson distribution, and it is
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The number of burglaries in a city is thought to have a Poisson distribution, and it is known that the mean of this distribution is three burglaries per week.
(i) What is the probability that in a given week, there are at most two burglaries?
(ii) Find the probability that in a 40-week period, there are 5 weeks with at most two burglaries in each of them.
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Introduction To Probability Volume 2
ISBN: 9781118123331
1st Edition
Authors: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Markos V. Koutras, Konstadinos G. Politis
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