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Suppose your call center usually gets 30 phone calls per hour. Compute the probability that a phone call will arrive within the next minute.
Solution
Given X~Poisson(mean=30/60=0.5 in a minute)
P(X=x)=(0.5^x)*exp(-0.5)/x!
So the probability is
P(X=1)=(0.5^1)*exp(-0.5)/1 =0.3032653
