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Phone calls arrive at the rate of 48 per hour at the reservation desk for Regional Airways. Assume that the distributions of arrivals can be approximated by the Poisson probability distribution. (hint: make sure you know Ã?µ for each question).

Determine the probability of receiving at most three calls in a five-minute interval of time.

Determine the probability of receiving exactly 10 calls in 15 minutes.

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Poisson Probability Distribution
Phone calls arrive at the rate of 48 per hour at the reservation desk for Regional Airways. Assume that the distributions of arrivals can be approximated by the Poisson probability distribution. (Hint: make sure you know µ for each question).
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Determine the probability of receiving at most three calls in a five-minute interval of time.
Let X be the number of phone calls arrivals at the reservation desk for Regional ...

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