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

question 150

Short Answer

The local police department must write,on average,five 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 six tickets are written on a randomly selected day from this population.

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