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Discrete distributions
A GIS firm is investigating the safety of a dangerous road stretch in the Himalayas. Historical data
indicates an average of 6 landslides per year over this stretch. The number of landslides is distributed
according to a Poisson distribution. The firm wants to calculate the probability of exactly 3 landslides
in any year
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