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On the average five customers visit a children department store each hour. Using Poisson distribution, calculate the probability of three customers shop at the store.

 Jul 27, 2016
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Use this formula, which should be in your textbook! p=[e^-u. U^x]/x!=e^-5.5^3 / 3!=~14%. At least, that is what I think, but no guatantees!!.

e is the base of natural logarithms (2.7183)
μ is the mean number of "successes"
x is the number of "successes" in question

 Jul 27, 2016

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