A famous NBA player appears at a local hot spot an average once every month. What is the probability that he will make an appearce at this same local that hot spot more than 2 times in a three month span?
Anish Buchanan 2021-02-12Answered
A famous NBA player appears at a local hot spot an average once every month. What is the probability that he will make an appearce at this same local that hot spot more than 2 times in a three month span?
Let X be number of times a famous NBA player appears at a local hot spot.
Since this is a rare event, X follows Poisson distribution with mean 1. That is, per month.
For three months
If X is the Poisson random variable, then the probability mass function of X is
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Then, the probability that he will make an appearance at the local hot spot more than 2 times is
Thus, the probability that he will make an appearance at the local hot spot more than 2 times is 0.5768.