Exhibit 5-10 The Probability That Pete Will Catch Fish on a Particular

question 88

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 5-10
The probability that Pete will catch fish on a particular day when he goes fishing is 0.8. Pete is going fishing 3 days next week.
-Excel's POISSON.DIST function can be used to compute

• A)bin width for histograms
• B)Poisson probabilities
• C)cumulative Poisson probabilities
• D)Both Poisson probabilities and cumulative Poisson probabilities are correct.

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