The Number of Goals Scored at Each Game by a Certain

question 103

Multiple Choice

The number of goals scored at each game by a certain hockey team follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 5 goals per game. Find the probability that the team scored exactly three goals in each of four randomly selected games.

• A) 0.00038828
• B) 0.56149561
• C) 0.00540243
• D) 0.43850439

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