Suppose That the Number of Airplanes Arriving at an Airport

question 121

True/False

Suppose that the number of airplanes arriving at an airport per minute is a Poisson process. The average number of airplanes arriving per minute is 3. The probability that exactly 6 planes arrive in the next minute is 0.05041.

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Heavily Cratered

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Little to No Atmosphere

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Lunar Highlands

High elevations on the Moon that contain a light-colored, heavily cratered material; syn. cratered highlands.

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