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The Department of Commerce in a Particular State Has Determined

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The Department of Commerce in a particular state has determined that the number of small businesses that declare bankruptcy per month is approximately a Poisson distribution with a mean of 6.4. Find the probability that more than 3 bankruptcies occur next month.


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Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability in a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the numbers are.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of these values by the number of values.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much individual data points differ from the mean.

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