Assume That Customer Arrivals at a Ticket Counter Can Be

question 63

Multiple Choice

Assume that customer arrivals at a ticket counter can be modeled by a Poisson distribution. The average arrival rate is 12 customers per hour. What is the probability of exactly 1 arrival in the next hour (to three decimal places) ?

• A) 1
• B) 0.015
• C) 0.000
• D) 0.002

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