Ship collisions in the Houston Ship Channel are rare but follow a Poisson distribution. Suppose the...
Ship collisions in the Houston Ship Channel are rare but follow
a Poisson distribution. Suppose the mean number of collisions is
1.2 for any three-month period of time. What is the probability of
having exactly one collision in a three-month period?
Homework Answers
Given that,
X follows Poisson distribution with parameter 
= 0.3614
The probability of having exactly one collision in a three-month
period is 0.3614
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