Airline fatalities. Over the past 10 years, US airlines average about 1 fatality per month (US Department

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Airline fatalities. Over the past 10 years, US airlines average about 1 fatality per month (US Department of Transportation, National Transportation Statistics: 2019). Assume that the probability distribution for x, the number of fatalities per month, can be approximated by a Poisson probability distribution.

a. What is the probability that no fatalities will occur during any given month?

b. What is the probability that one fatality will occur during a month?

c. Find E1x2 and the standard deviation of x.

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Statistics For Business And Economics

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14th Global Edition

Authors: James McClave, P. Benson, Terry Sincich

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