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Can someone check this answer please?

A shop sells a particular computer at the average rate of 5 per week, the number sold follows a poisson distribution

a)find the probability that at least 2 computers are sold during a given week

b)find the smallest number that can be in stock at the start of the week for there to be at least a 99% chance of being able to meet the demand for that week

a)0.9595
b) mean = 5, 11 down in the table (0.9945)
Reply 1
Yes and yes,
Reply 2
Going to pull this thread out of the history books and ask how you got the two answers you did jermaindefoe?

I have been given those questions as well and I got a completely different answer to you!

Could you provide your method to working it out?
Reply 3
Original post by Dj2013
Going to pull this thread out of the history books and ask how you got the two answers you did jermaindefoe?

I have been given those questions as well and I got a completely different answer to you!

Could you provide your method to working it out?


Did you somehow search for this particular question

After 5 years it is unlikely that the OP is still doing much stats work - why did you not start a new thread
Reply 4
Yeh, I searched for it!

Well I bumped it in the hope that he might have done. I will start a new one though!

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