SOLUTION: Poisson distribution. if 4% of the population catch a certain disease, find the probability that in a group of 200 people, a- exactly 3 will get the disease. b- at least one wil

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Question 938421: Poisson distribution.
if 4% of the population catch a certain disease, find the probability that in a group of 200 people,
a- exactly 3 will get the disease.
b- at least one will get the didease

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Poisson: avg 8
a. P(x=3) = poissonpdf(8,3)
b. P(x ≥ 1) = 1 - poissonpdf(8,0)

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