SOLUTION: Consider a Poisson distribution with an average of 3 customers per minute at the local grocery store. If X = the number of arrivals per minute, find the probability of more than 7

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Question 1143454: Consider a Poisson distribution with an average of 3 customers per minute at the local grocery store. If X = the number of arrivals per minute, find the probability of more than 7 customers arriving within a minute.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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From the table, 0.9881 is cumulative probability up to and including 7.
Greater than 7 would be the complement, or 1-0.9881 or 0.0119.