3. a) On a certain night soon after sunset in March, the probability that an observer sees a meteor (falling star) in any given second is 6/3600 (note that an hour is 3600 seconds; one mentions seconds here, since one second is a very short time under the circumstances - so 6 is the hourly rate when one measures this rate in very short time intervals). What is the probability that this observer will see exactly k meteors in a given hour (k > 0)? b) What is the probability that the same observer will see 4 meteors in a given hour.

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3. a) On a certain night soon after sunset in March, the probability that an observer sees a meteor
(falling star) in any given second is 6/3600 (note that an hour is 3600 seconds; one mentions seconds here,
since one second is a very short time under the circumstances
this rate in very short time intervals). What is the probability that this observer will see exactly k meteors
in a given hour (k > 0)?
b) What is the probability that the same observer will see 4 meteors in a given hour.
so 6 is the hourly rate when one measures
Transcribed Image Text:3. a) On a certain night soon after sunset in March, the probability that an observer sees a meteor (falling star) in any given second is 6/3600 (note that an hour is 3600 seconds; one mentions seconds here, since one second is a very short time under the circumstances this rate in very short time intervals). What is the probability that this observer will see exactly k meteors in a given hour (k > 0)? b) What is the probability that the same observer will see 4 meteors in a given hour. so 6 is the hourly rate when one measures
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