The Arrival of Customers at a Service Desk Follows a Poisson

question 80

Multiple Choice

The arrival of customers at a service desk follows a Poisson distribution. If they arrive at the rate of two every five minutes, what is the probability that no customers arrive in a five-minute period?

• A) 0.7311
• B) 0.3711
• C) 0.1353
• D) 0.16

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