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

question 2

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 of 5tickets per day. Find the probability that exactly eight tickets are written on a randomly selected day from thisdistribution.

• A) 0.065278
• B) 0.005476
• C) 0.003250
• D) 0.000273

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