Use the Poisson Distribution to Find the Indicated Probability

question 6

Multiple Choice

Use the Poisson Distribution to find the indicated probability.
-On one tropical island, hurricanes occur with a mean of 2.74 per year. Assuming that the number of hurricanes can be modeled by a Poisson distribution, find the probability that during the next 3 years the number of
Hurricanes will be 2.

• A) 0.0249
• B) 0.0091
• C) 0.2424
• D) 0.0010
• E) 0.0646

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