A taxi firm has two cars which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as Poisson distribution with mean λ = 1.5. 1. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used, and 2. Calculate the proportion of days on which some demands are refused.

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A taxi firm has two cars which it hires out day by day.
The number of demands for a car on each day is
distributed as Poisson distribution with mean > = 1.5.
1. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither
car is used, and
2.
Calculate the proportion of days on which some
demands are refused.
Transcribed Image Text:A taxi firm has two cars which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as Poisson distribution with mean > = 1.5. 1. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used, and 2. Calculate the proportion of days on which some demands are refused.
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