The Number of Calls to an Internet Service Provider During

question 91

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 standard deviation for the call distribution is about 3.87 calls.

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