An engineer counts 400 veh/hr at a specific highway location. Assuming that the vehicles arrive based on a poisson distribution, estimate the probabilities of having 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or more vehicles arriving over a 20-second interval.

An engineer counts 400 veh/hr at a specific highway location. Assuming that the vehicles arrive based on a poisson distribution, estimate the probabilities of having 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or more vehicles arriving over a 20-second interval.

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