In a Poisson experiment, the number of successes that occur in any interval of time is ____________________ of the number of success that occur in any other interval.
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Q. 2A community college has 150 word processors. The probability that any one of them will require repair on a given day is 0.025 . To find the probability that exactly 25 of the word processors will require repair, one will use what type of probability distribution?
a. Normal distribution
b. Poisson distribution
c. Binomial distribution
d. None of these choices.
Q. 3On the average, 1.6 customers per minute arrive at any one of the checkout counters of Sunshine food market. What type of probability distribution can be used to find out the probability that there will be no customers arriving at a checkout counter in 10 minutes?
a. Poisson distribution
b. Normal distribution
c. Binomial distribution
d. None of these choices.
Q. 4In a Poisson distribution, the:
a. mean equals the standard deviation.
b. median equals the standard deviation.
c. mean equals the variance.
d. None of these choices.
Q. 5Given a Poisson random variable X, where the average number of successes occurring in a specified interval is 1.8, then P(X = 0) is:
a. 1.8
b. 1.3416
c. 0.1653
d. 6.05
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