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document.write( "A computer salesman average 1.5 sales per week. Use the poison distribution to find the probability that in a randomly selected week the number of computers sold is 1?\".<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solution:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "For a Poisson distribution, here &lambda; = 1.5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and x=1.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Then <BR>\n" );
document.write( "pmf(x,&lambda;)=&lambda;^x(e^(-&lambda;)/x!<BR>\n" );
document.write( "=1.5^1(e^(-1.5))/1!<BR>\n" );
document.write( "=0.33469<BR>\n" );
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