SOLUTION: In analyzing hits by bombs in a past war, a city was subdivided into 738 regions, each with an area of 1-mi². A total of 649 bombs hit the combined area of 738 regions. The Poisso

Question 1206014: In analyzing hits by bombs in a past war, a city was subdivided into 738 regions, each with an area of 1-mi². A total of 649 bombs hit the combined area of 738 regions. The Poisson distribution applies because we are dealing with the occurrences of an event (bomb hits) over some interval (a region with area of 1-mi².
Find the mean number of hits per region:
(Report answer accurate to 4 decimal places.)
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is    =  = 0.8794  bombs per region  (rounded).    ANSWER

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