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

question 271

Multiple Choice

The university police department must write, on average, five tickets per day to keep department revenues at budgeted levels. Suppose the number of tickets written per day follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 7.5. Find the probability that fewer than six tickets are written on a randomly selected day.

• A) 0.621845
• B) 0.241436
• C) 0.378155
• D) 0.758564

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Definitions:

Social Learning Theory

A theory that suggests people learn from one another via observation, imitation, and modeling.

Higher Order Conditioning

A learning process whereby a stimulus that has been conditioned to produce a particular response is used in turn to condition a second stimulus to produce the same response.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response.

Shaping

A behavioral psychology technique that reinforces behavior closer and closer to a desired goal, used in teaching new behaviors.