An Alarm Company Reports That the Number of Alarms Sent

question 45

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 λ = 4.6 alarms per year. Find the probability that a randomly selected customer had more than 7 alarms reported.

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

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