A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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according to JD Power and associates 2006 Initial Quality study, customers reported an average of 1.8 problems per vehicle with new 2006 volkswagens. in a randomly selected new Volkswagen, what is the probability of more than 3 problems. Around your answer to 4 decimal places
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Step 1: We have given that
Let X represents the number of problems per vehicle with new 2016 Volkswagens.
The random variable X has Poisson distribution with mean or average
The formulae of Poisson distribution is
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