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An insurance company has an average of 9 claims per week. What is the probability that during the next week exactly 7 will be filed.
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document.write( "If X is the number of successes in an interval\r\n" );
document.write( "of fixed length and X follows a Poisson process \r\n" );
document.write( "with mean \"mu\", then the probability that \r\n" );
document.write( "X = x is\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"P%28X=x%29+=+%28%28mu%5Ex%29%2Fx%21%29e%5E%28-mu%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "In your problem, \"mu=9\", \"x=7\", so\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"P%28X=7%29+=+%28%289%5E7%29%2F7%21%29e%5E%28-9%29=.1171161245\" \r\n" );
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