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The owner of a small computer store personally sells one computer per week on the average. Use the Poisson distribution to find the probability of randomly selecting a week in which she personally sold three computers.

To use excel I know I need to find the mean and x. I also know the corrct answer is .06. However, I am a bit confused about what the mean or the x would be in this scenerio. Can you help please.

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The expert examines the poisson distribution and probability of a store owner selling small computers.

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The formula for the Poisson distribution is:

p(x) = (mean^x)(e^-mean)/x!

where mean = the ...

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