The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process with frequency of four individuals per hour. Suppose that you are making observations in an emergency room for 4 hours. What is the probability that exactly three patients arrive during this period?

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c) .0002

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The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process
with frequency of four individuals per hour. Suppose that you are making observations in an emergency
room for 4 hours.
What is the probability that exactly three patients arrive during this period?
Transcribed Image Text:The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process with frequency of four individuals per hour. Suppose that you are making observations in an emergency room for 4 hours. What is the probability that exactly three patients arrive during this period?
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