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The number of customers at Winkies Donuts between 8:00a.m.and 9:00a.m.is believed to follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of 2 customers per minute.
a.During a randomly selected one minute interval during this time period,what is the probability of 6 customers arriving to Winkies?
b.What is the probability that at least 2 minutes elapse between customer arrivals?


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