You own a local company that has special equipment for moving pianos. Your company has enough equipment to handle three pianos in a day. The number of requests to move pianos is a random variable with following distribution. → x f(x) 0 0.30 1 0.38 2 0.15 3 4 0.05 5 0.03 6 0.01 2 What is the probability that you will run out of equipment? That is, you receive three or more requests.

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You own a local company that has special equipment for moving pianos.  Your company has enough equipment to handle three pianos in a day.  The number of requests to move pianos is a random variable with following distribution.  →

 

x f(x)
0 0.30
1 0.38
2 0.15
3  
4 0.05
5 0.03
6 0.01

 

2 What is the probability that you will run out of equipment?  That is, you receive three or more requests.
 
a 0.17              
b 0.18              
c 0.19              
d 0.20              
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