The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process with a rate parameter of six per hour. (a) What is the probability that exactly three arrivals occur during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
(b) What Is the probability that at least three people arrive during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
(c) How many people do you expect to arrive during a 15-min period?

a) P(x=3)=0.089

b) P(x≥3)=0.938

c) 1.5 arrivals

Step-by-step explanation:

Let t be the time (in hours), then random variable X is the number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room.

The variable X is modeled by a Poisson process with a rate parameter of λ=6.

The probability of exactly k arrivals in a particular hour can be written as:

a) The probability that exactly 3 arrivals occur during a particular hour is:

b) The probability that at least 3 people arrive during a particular hour is:

c) In this case, t=0.25, so we recalculate the parameter as:

The expected value for a Poisson distribution is equal to its parameter λ, so in this case we expect 1.5 arrivals in a period of 15 minutes.

14.29%

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