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At a particular location on a river the number of fish caught per man-hour of fishing effort has a Poisson distribution with ?= 1.3 fish per man hour. Find the following probabilities:

a. That four fish will be caught by one man fishing 2 hours.

b. That six fish will be caught by three men fishing 20 minutes each.

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Step by step method for computing probability based on Poison distribution is given in the solution.

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