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1898, L.J Pietkiewicz published a book entitled The Law of Small Number. He used data collected over 20 years to show that the number of soldiers killed by horse kicks each year in each corps in the Prussian cavalry followed a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.61. What is the probability of no deaths in a corps over five years? 0.046 0.045 0.047 None of the choices

1898, L.J Pietkiewicz published a book entitled The Law of Small Number. He used data collected over 20 years to show that the number of soldiers killed by horse kicks each year in each corps in the Prussian cavalry followed a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.61. What is the probability of no deaths in a corps over five years? 0.046 0.045 0.047 None of the choices

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1898, L.J Pietkiewicz published a book entitled The Law of Small Number. He used data collected over 20 years to show that the number of soldiers killed by horse kicks each year in each corps in the Prussian cavalry followed a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.61. What is the probability of no deaths in a corps over five years? 0.046 0.045 0.047 None of the choices
Transcribed Image Text:1898, L.J Pietkiewicz published a book entitled The Law of Small Number. He used data collected over 20 years to show that the number of soldiers killed by horse kicks each year in each corps in the Prussian cavalry followed a Poisson distribution with a mean of 0.61. What is the probability of no deaths in a corps over five years? 0.046 0.045 0.047 None of the choices
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