A highway engineer who is studying the number of accidents at a busy intersec-tion has determined that accidents occur at the rate of 2.5 per month.a. Find the probability that none occurs in a given month.b. Find the probability that more than one occur in a given month.c. Find the population mean, the population variance, and the population stan-dard deviation for the number of accidents in a given month.

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