The Number of Calls to an Internet Service Provider During

question 16

True/False

The number of calls to an Internet service provider during the hour between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. is described by a Poisson distribution with mean equal to 15. Given this information, the expected number of calls in the first 30 minutes is 7.5 calls.

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