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OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e §4.4 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 17 · Probability · Discrete distributions

Poisson Distribution · Exercise 17

The average number of children a Japanese woman has in her lifetime is 1.37. Suppose that one Japanese woman is randomly chosen.

(a) In words, define the random variable X.
(b) List the values that X may take on.
(c) Find the probability that she has no children.
(d) Find the probability that she has fewer children than the Japanese average.
(e) Find the probability that she has more children than the Japanese average.

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OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e · §4.4 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 17

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