The University Police Department Must Write, on Average, Five Tickets

question 18

Multiple Choice

The university police department must write, on average, five tickets per day to keep department revenues atbudgeted levels. Suppose the number of tickets written per day follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of9.6 tickets per day. Find the probability that less than six tickets are written on a randomly selected day fromthis distribution.

• A) 0.083815
• B) 0.157447
• C) 0.916185
• D) 0.842553

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