Telephone Calls Arrive at the Global Airline Reservation Office in Louisville

question 120

Short Answer

Telephone calls arrive at the Global Airline reservation office in Louisville according to a Poisson distribution with a mean of 1.2 calls per minute.
a. What is the probability of receiving exactly one call during a one-minute interval?
b. What is the probability of receiving at most 2 calls during a one-minute interval?
c. What is the probability of receiving at least two calls during a one-minute interval?
d. What is the probability of receiving exactly 4 calls during a five-minute interval?
e. What is the probability that at most 2 minutes elapse between one call and the next?

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