A car hire firm has two cars, which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used and the proportion of days on which some demand is refused. (e-1.5 = 0.2231)

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A car hire firm has two cars, which it hires out day by day. The
number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as a Poisson
distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which
neither car is used and the proportion of days on which some demand
is refused. (e-1.5
:0.2231)
Transcribed Image Text:A car hire firm has two cars, which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used and the proportion of days on which some demand is refused. (e-1.5 :0.2231)
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