16. Babies! The number of births at the local hospital has a Poisson distribution with an average...

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16. Babies! The number of births at the local hospital has a Poisson distribution with an average of 6 per day.

a. What is the probability distribution for the daily number of births at this hospital?

b. What is the probability distribution for the number of hourly births?

c. What is the probability that there are fewer than 3 births in a given hour?

d. Within what interval would you expect to find the number of hourly births at least 89% of the time?

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Introduction To Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9780357114469

15th Edition

Authors: William Mendenhall Iii , Robert Beaver , Barbara Beaver

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