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OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e §4.4 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 18 · Probability · Discrete distributions

Poisson Distribution · Exercise 18

The average number of children a Spanish woman has in her lifetime is 1.47. Suppose that one Spanish 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 Spanish average.
(e) Find the probability that she has more children than the Spanish average.

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OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e · §4.4 Poisson Distribution · Exercise 18

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