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A toll-free phone number is available from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. for your customer to register complaints about a product purchased from your company. Past history indicates that a mean of
a. What properties must be true about the situation described here in order to use the Poisson distribution to calculate probabilities concerning the number of phone cells received in a one-minute period?
Assuming that this situation matches the properties, discussed in
b. zero phone calls will be received?
c. three or more phone cells will be received?
d. What is the maximum number of phone calls that will be received in a one-minute period
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