
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Author: Sheldon Ross
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The switchboard in a Minneapolis law office gets an average of 2 incoming phone calls during the noon hour on Mondays. Experience shows that the existing staff can handle up to six calls in an hour. Let X = the number of calls received at noon. What is the probability that the office receives
a. exactly 4 calls at noon on Monday.
b. exactly 10 calls at noon on Monday.
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Let X = the number of calls received at noon.
Given,
lamda=2
By poisson distribution
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