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Poisson Probability Distribution

The document provides 10 examples of calculating probabilities of events using the Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution can be used to model the number of times a rare event occurs in a fixed time period when occurrences are independent and the average rate of occurrences is known. Each example gives the average rate of occurrence and asks for the probability of certain numbers of occurrences happening within a given time period or space.

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Poisson Probability Distribution

The document provides 10 examples of calculating probabilities of events using the Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution can be used to model the number of times a rare event occurs in a fixed time period when occurrences are independent and the average rate of occurrences is known. Each example gives the average rate of occurrence and asks for the probability of certain numbers of occurrences happening within a given time period or space.

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POISSON PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION

1- My computer crashes on average once every 4 months;

a) What is the probability that it will not crash in a period of 4 months?

b) What is the probability that it will crash once in a period of 4 months?

c) What is the probability that it will crash twice in a period of 4 months?

d) What is the probability that it will crash three times in a period of 4 months?

2- A customer help center receives on average 3.5 calls every hour.

a) What is the probability that it will receive at most 4 calls every hour?

b) What is the probability that it will receive at least 5 calls every hour?

3- At a small walk-in clinic, an average of five patients arrive at the clinic per hour during

opening hours. What is the probability that exactly three patients will arrive in the next hour?

4- If you receive an average of two emails per week from your statistics professor, what is

the probability that you will receive exactly one email from your statistics professor on Monday?

5- Over the last 300 years, there were 87 floods in Statsville. Assuming that the number of

floods per year follows a Poisson distribution, what is the probability that there will be no floods

in Statsville next year?


6- In the last 100 years, there have been 93 earthquakes measuring 6.0 or more on the

Richter scale. What is the probability of having 3 earthquakes in the same year that all measure

6.0 or more?

7- A person receives on average 3 e-mails per hour.

a) What is the probability that he will receive 5 e-mails over a period two hours?

b) What is the probability that he will receive more than 2 e-mails over a period two hours?

8- Patients arrive at a hospital accident and emergency department at random at a rate of 6

per hour. Find the probability that, during any 90 minute period, the number of patients arriving

at the hospital accident and emergency department is

a) exactly 7

b) at least 3

9- Buttercups in meadow are distributed independently of one another and at a constant

average incidence of 3 buttercups per square metre.

a) Find the probability that in 1 square metre there are more than 5 buttercups.

b) Find the probability that in 4 square metre there are either 13 or 14 buttercups.

10- It is given that 𝑌~𝑃𝑜(𝜇), where 𝜋 ≠ 0, and 𝑃(𝑌 = 4) = 𝑃(𝑌 = 5). Write down an

equation for 𝜇 and the corresponding value of 𝑃(𝑌 = 5).

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