A Statistics Professor Receives an Average of Five E-Mail Messages

question 15

Multiple Choice

A statistics professor receives an average of five e-mail messages per day from students. Assume the number of messages approximates a Poisson distribution.
-What is the probability that on a randomly selected day she will have five messages?

• A)0.0067
• B)0.875
• C)0.175
• D)1.0

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