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At the University of Science and Technology,students arrive at the examination centre to write examinations at an average rate of 3 s
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Question 1075147: Please help me solve the following problem.
At the University of Science and Technology,students arrive at the examination centre to write examinations at an average rate of 3 students per minute. Assuming that the student arrival rate follows an appropriate probability distribution, determine the probability that at most two students arrive in a given minute. Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We use the Poisson(P) Probability Distribution
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The formula for P is
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P(x;u) = (e^u) * (u^x) / x!, where e = 2.71828
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To solve the problem we need to calculate
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P(0;3) + P(1;3) + P(2;3) = 0.05 + 0.15 + 0.22 = 0.42
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