The Number of Tickets Issued by a Meter Reader for Parking-Meter

question 19

Essay

The number of tickets issued by a meter reader for parking-meter violations can be modeled by a Poisson process with a rate parameter of five per hour.
a. What is the probability that exactly three tickets are given out during a particular hour?
b. What is the probability that at least three tickets are given out during a particular hour?
c. How many tickets do you expect to be given during a 45-min period?

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