SOLUTION: An advertising executive receives an average of 10 telephone calls each afternoon between 2 and 4 P.M. The calls occur randomly and independently of one another and follow a Poisso

Question 61163: An advertising executive receives an average of 10 telephone calls each afternoon between 2 and 4 P.M. The calls occur randomly and independently of one another and follow a Poisson model.
a) Find the probability that the executive will receive 13 calls between 2 and 4 P.M. on a particular afternoon.
b) Find the probability that the executive will receive seven calls between 2 and 3 P.M. on a particular afternoon.
c) Find the probability that the executive will receive at least five calls between 2 and 4 P.M. on a particular afternoon.
d) Find the probability that the executive will receive three or less calls between 2 and 3 P.M. on a particular afternoon.
e) Find the probability that the executive will receive eight or more calls between 2 and 4 P.M. on a particular afternoon.
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