SOLUTION: ten is the average number of oil takers arriving each day at a certain port city.the facilities at the port can handle at most 15 takers per day .what is the probability that on a
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Question 924051: ten is the average number of oil takers arriving each day at a certain port city.the facilities at the port can handle at most 15 takers per day .what is the probability that on a given day takers have to be turned away?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
average = 10 tankers/day
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Probability of turning tankers away:
P(x > 15) = 1 - poissoncdf(10, 15) = 1- .9513 = .0487 0r 4.87%
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