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 variate with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which (i) Neither car is used (ii) Some demand is refused.

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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 variate
with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days
on which
(i) Neither car is used
(ii) Some demand is refused.
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 variate with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which (i) Neither car is used (ii) Some demand is refused.
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