The Number of Goals Scored at State College Hockey Games

question 41

Multiple Choice

The number of goals scored at State College hockey games follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 4goals per game. Find the probability that a randomly selected State College hockey game would have morethan three goals scored.

• A) 0.566530
• B) 0.433470
• C) 0.761897
• D) 0.238103

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