merchant sells on the average 2.3 cakes on a round of his route. Cakes are packaged two to a box but are sold individually. At the end of the round, the salesman eats any cake left over in a box that has been opened. He only opens a box after emptying the previous box. If the number of cakes sold has a Poisson distribution, then on what proportion

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Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
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A merchant sells on the average 2.3 cakes on a round of his route. Cakes are packaged two to a box but are sold individually. At the end of the round, the salesman eats any cake left over in a box that has been opened. He only opens a box after emptying the previous box. If the number of cakes sold has a Poisson distribution, then on what proportion of rounds does he have a cake to eat? (4 decimal accuracy).

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