SCENARIO 5-9 A Major Hotel Chain Keeps a Record of the Number

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SCENARIO 5-9
A major hotel chain keeps a record of the number of mishandled bags per 1,000 customers.In a recent year,the hotel chain had 4.06 mishandled bags per 1,000 customers.Assume that the number of mishandled bags has a Poisson distribution.
-Referring to Scenario 5-9,what is the probability that in the next 1,000 customers,the hotel chain will have no mishandled bags?

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