A store selling newspapers orders only n = 4 of a certain newspaper because the manager does not get many calls for that publication. If the number of requests per day follows a Poisson distribution with mean 3, a. What is the expected value of the number sold? b. What is the minimum number that the manager should order so that the chance of having more requests than available newspapers is less than 0.05?

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A store selling newspapers orders only n = 4 of a certain newspaper because the manager does not get many calls for that publication. If the number of requests per day follows a Poisson distribution with mean 3, a. What is the expected value of the number sold? b. What is the minimum number that the manager should order so that the chance of having more requests than available newspapers is less than 0.05?

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