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During normal business hours on the east coast, calls to the toll-free reservation number of the Nite Time Inn that the numb roy calls per minute can be described by the Poisson distribution. Find the probability that in the next minute, the number of calls arriving will be 5, 4, 3, 6, less than 2.

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