An Alarm Company Reports That the Number of Alarms Sent

question 107

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)0.087
• C)0.818
• D)0.182
• E)0.095

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