SOLUTION: The number of lightening strikes in a year a top of a particular mountain has a poisson distribution with a mean of 3.1. Find the probability that a randomly selected year, the num
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Question 875065: The number of lightening strikes in a year a top of a particular mountain has a poisson distribution with a mean of 3.1. Find the probability that a randomly selected year, the number of lightning strikes is 2.
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
poissonpdf(3.1,2) = .2165
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