The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process with a rate parameter of five per hour. (a) What is the probability that exactly four arrivals occur during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.) (b) What is the probability that at least four people arrive during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.) (c) How many people do you expect to arrive during a 15-min period? people

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The number of people arriving for treatment at an emergency room can be modeled by a Poisson process with a rate parameter of five per hour.

(a) What is the probability that exactly four arrivals occur during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)


(b) What is the probability that at least four people arrive during a particular hour? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)


(c) How many people do you expect to arrive during a 15-min period?
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