A busy traffic junction has an average of 3 accidents per month. What is the probability that there will be at least 2 accidents in a particular month?
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The Poisson distribution is a probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last Show more…
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