The University Police Department Keeps Track of the Number of Tickets

question 42

Multiple Choice

The university police department keeps track of the number of tickets it write in a year. Last year the campuspolice wrote 1460 tickets. Ticket writing on campus follows a Poisson process. What is the mean number oftickets written per day by the campus police?

• A) 4
• B) 2
• C) 6.08
• D) 5

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