An Alarm Company Reports That the Number of Alarms Sent $\lambda = 4.6$

question 35

Multiple Choice

An alarm company reports that the number of alarms sent to their monitoring center from customers owning their system follow a Poisson distribution with $\lambda = 4.6$ alarms per year. Find the probability that a randomly selected customer had more than 7 alarms reported.

• A) 0.087
• B) 0.182
• C) 0.095
• D) 0.818
• E) 0.905

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