SOLUTION: During the period of time that a local university takes phone-in registrations, calls come in at the rate of one every two minutes. What is the probability of three calls in fiv

SOLUTION: During the period of time that a local university takes phone-in registrations, calls come in at the rate of one every two minutes. What is the probability of three calls in fiv

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Question 464648: During the period of time that a local university takes phone-in registrations, calls come in at the rate of one every two minutes.
What is the probability of three calls in five minutes (to 4 decimals)
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Follows a Poisson distribution with
==> , to four decimal places.
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