Find the Mean of the Poisson Random Variable $\lambda = 1.8$

question 9

Multiple Choice

Find the mean of the Poisson random variable.
-In one town, the number of burglaries in a week has a Poisson distribution with parameter $\lambda = 1.8$ . Let $X$ denote the number of burglaries in the town in a randomly selected week. Find the mean of X.

• A)\(1.342\)
• B) \(0.9\)
• C) \(1.8\)
• D) \(3.24\)

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