1. For a specific county, 10 floods have occurred in 50 years. For this problem, a “flood year” is any year where a flood occurs some time during the year. This can be modelled as a Poisson process. a) What is the probability that next year will be a flood year? b) What is the probability that there will be 10 floods in the next 50 years? c) What is the probability that there will be 1 flood in the next 10 years? d) Over a 50 year period, how many floods could be expected? e) Over a 50 year period, how many “flood years” could be expected?

1. For a specific county, 10 floods have occurred in 50 years. For this problem, a “flood year” is any year where a flood occurs some time during the year. This can be modelled as a Poisson process. a) What is the probability that next year will be a flood year? b) What is the probability that there will be 10 floods in the next 50 years? c) What is the probability that there will be 1 flood in the next 10 years? d) Over a 50 year period, how many floods could be expected? e) Over a 50 year period, how many “flood years” could be expected?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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