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poisson

Hello.

I am not sure here why the answer is not working out.
I used poisson with mean 3.5 and to find the P(X=1) and not working.
I also tried with X=4 and also not.

The question is attached. Thank you
Original post by DanielDaniels
Hello.

I am not sure here why the answer is not working out.
I used poisson with mean 3.5 and to find the P(X=1) and not working.
I also tried with X=4 and also not.

The question is attached. Thank you


It's talking about the same hour. If it was the next hour then P(X=1) would be correct.

Here you've looking at conditional probability. What's the probability that exactly four occurred, given that at least three occurred.
Original post by ghostwalker
It's talking about the same hour. If it was the next hour then P(X=1) would be correct.

Here you've looking at conditional probability. What's the probability that exactly four occurred, given that at least three occurred.

Thank you for your assistance. Yes I see. Therefore we have
P(X=4)/P(X>=3)

Correct?
Original post by DanielDaniels
Thank you for your assistance. Yes I see. Therefore we have
P(X=4)/P(X>=3)

Correct?


Agreed.
Reply 4
i clicked on this thinking it would be something weird about fish but boy was i wrong lol.
(poisson is fish in french) (or something similar i didnt use that word much)
Original post by wilooo
i clicked on this thinking it would be something weird about fish but boy was i wrong lol.
(poisson is fish in french) (or something similar i didnt use that word much)


:facepalm2:
Original post by wilooo
i clicked on this thinking it would be something weird about fish but boy was i wrong lol.
(poisson is fish in french) (or something similar i didnt use that word much)

omg lmao
Its FurtherMaths A-level
Original post by ghostwalker
Agreed.

Thank you
Reply 8
Original post by Qxi.xli
omg lmao
Its FurtherMaths A-level

lol thanks i was so confused
Reply 9
Original post by wilooo
i clicked on this thinking it would be something weird about fish but boy was i wrong lol.
(poisson is fish in french) (or something similar i didnt use that word much)


Original post by ghostwalker
:facepalm2:


Original post by Qxi.xli
omg lmao
Its FurtherMaths A-level

when I was at uni, one of my supervisors' favourite hints when trying to get us to use a particular probability distribution for a question was "one man's meat is another man's Poisson". It wasn't funny then, and it isn't funny now :smile:

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