The Number of Lightning Strikes in a Year at the Top

question 119

Essay

The number of lightning strikes in a year at the top of a particular mountain has a Poisson distribution with parameter $\lambda = 3.5$ . Construct a histogram of the probabilities when the number of strikes is from 1-5.

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