The number of industrial injuries per working week in a particular factory is known to follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.59. find the probability that in a three-week period there will be exactly 3 accidents. (Give your answer in 2

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The number of industrial injuries per working week in a particular factory is known to follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.59. find the probability that in a three-week period there will be exactly 3 accidents. (Give your answer in 2 d.p)

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