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Example 4.26 from Statistics, 4.6 Poisson Distribution (Optional)
A bank expects to receive six bad checks per day, on average. What is the probability of the bank getting fewer than five bad checks on any given day? Of interest is the number of checks the bank receives in one day, so the time interval of interest is one day. Let X = the number of bad checks the bank receives in one day. If the bank expects to receive six bad checks per day then the average is six checks per day. Write a mathematical statement for the probability question.
Work it out on paper first. Then open the solution one step at a time, and stop as soon as you can finish on your own.
P(x < 5)
How did it go?