SOLUTION: Your boss has determined that the number of people "x" who call in sick on Fridays approximates a Poisson distribution. She also notes that, for the past many years, the average nu
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Question 436115: Your boss has determined that the number of people "x" who call in sick on Fridays approximates a Poisson distribution. She also notes that, for the past many years, the average number of employees absent on Friday is 2.6. Given this data she asks you to compute the probability that more than 5 will be sick on a given Friday. Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source):
