The Local Police Department Must Write,on Average,5 Tickets a Day

question 110

Short Answer

The local police department must write,on average,5 tickets a day to keep department revenues at budgeted levels.Suppose the number of tickets written per day follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 6.4 tickets per day.Find the probability that exactly 6 tickets are written on a randomly selected day from this population.

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