the number of accidents that occur in a busy intersection is poisson distributed with a mean of 3.5 per week.Find the probability that there will be three or more accidents in a week.
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5 accidents per week. The Poisson distribution formula is: P(X=k) = (λ^k * e^-λ) / k! where: - P(X=k) is the probability of k events happening in an interval, - λ is the average rate of value, - e is the base of the natural logarithm (approximately equal to Show more…
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