SOLUTION: Recent crime reports indicate that 3.1 motor vehicle thefts occur each minute in the
United States. Assume that the distribution of thefts per minute can be approximated by
the P
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Question 401546: Recent crime reports indicate that 3.1 motor vehicle thefts occur each minute in the
United States. Assume that the distribution of thefts per minute can be approximated by
the Poisson probability distribution.
a. Calculate the probability exactly four thefts occur in a minute.
b. What is the probability there are no thefts in a minute?
c. What is the probability there is at least one theft in a minute? Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source):
