A survey found that 0.05% of the people in a city are infected by the COVID virus. If we randomly select 5000 people, using Poisson distribution        (a)  Find the probability that at most 3 people are infected by the virus.        (b)  Find the variance of the number of people infected by the virus.

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A survey found that 0.05% of the people in a city are infected by the COVID virus. If we randomly select 5000 people, using Poisson distribution

       (a)  Find the probability that at most 3 people are infected by the virus.

       (b)  Find the variance of the number of people infected by the virus. 

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