The Number of Power Outages at a Nuclear Power Plant

question 100

Short Answer

The number of power outages at a nuclear power plant has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 6 outages per year.The probability that there will be at least 3 power outages in a year is _____.

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Definitions:

Continually Tense

Experiencing persistent and ongoing feelings of tension or stress, without relaxation.

Apprehensive

Feeling anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Psychoanalytic Perspective

A theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Phobias

Strong, unreasonable anxieties about particular things, actions, or scenarios that result in evasive actions.