Question 6: (5 points) The billing department of a major credit card company attempts to control errors (clerical, data transmission, etc.) on customers' bills. Suppose that errors occur according to a Poisson distribution with parameter $lambda = 0.01$. What is the probability that a customer's bill selected at random will contain one error?
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