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Historical Data Shows That the Average Number of Patient Arrivals

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Historical data shows that the average number of patient arrivals at the intensive care unit of General Hospital is 3 patients every 2 hours.Assume that the patient arrivals are distributed according to Poisson distribution.
-Determine the probability of at least 4 but no more than 8 patients arriving in a three-hour period.


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