SOLUTION: Past statistics show that a football team scores an average of 3 goals per match. Use a Poisson distribution to find the probability that the team would score exactly 4 goals in a

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Question 474387: Past statistics show that a football team scores an average of 3 goals per match. Use a Poisson distribution to find the probability that the team would score exactly 4 goals in a match and at most 2 goals in a match.
Answer by robertb(5830) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
mu+=+3
P%28X+=+4%29+=+e%5E%28-3%29%2A%283%5E4%2F4%21%29+=+0.168 to 3 decimal places.
, to 5 decimal places.