Assume that the monthly worldwide average number of airplaine crashes of commercial airlines is 2.2. What is the probability that there will be(a) less than 2 such accidents in the next month?(b) more than 5 such accidents in the next 2 months?(c) exactly 8 such accidents in the next 5 months?

This is a Poisson distribution since we are dealing with the number of events (airplane crashes)…

Answered: Assume that the monthly worldwide…

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Assume that the monthly worldwide average number of airplaine crashes of commercial airlines is 2.2. What is the probability that there will be (a) less than 2 such accidents in the next month? (b) more than 5 such accidents in the next 2 months? (c) exactly 8 such accidents in the next 5 months?