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posted by zinybeam on 11/3/2009 4:09:02 PM | status: Live | Earned Karma: 106

POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS

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A store selling newspapers only orders 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 four,

a) What is the expected value of the number sold?

b) How many should the manager order so that the chance of running out is less than 0.08?

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