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The number of complaints received by a company each month follows a Poisson distribution with mean...

The number of complaints received by a company each month follows a Poisson distribution
with mean 6.


(a) Calculate the probability the company receives no complaint in a certain week.
(b) Calculate the probability the company receives more than 4 complaints in a 2-week
period.
(c) Over a certain month, calculate the probability the company receives fewer complaints
than it usually does with respect to its monthly average.

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