The average number of cars per minute is: MATH

(a) MATH


(b) E(X) = 5 × 2 = 10

(c) Now, with μ = 10, we have: MATH

Histogram of Probabilities

Based on the function

MATH

we can plot a histogram of the probabilities for the number of cars per minute:
probdist3_poisson__42.png

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