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At a telephone enquiry system no of phone calls regarding Poisson distribution with an average of 5 phone calls in a 10 minute interval
The probability that there is atmost 1 phone call during a ten minute period is

a) 5/6
b)6/55
c)6/e5
d)6/5e

please explain with solution
and also explain what is meant by Poisson distribution
i do not know the right answer yet
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Poissondistribution is a limitin case of binomial distribution...suppose X is a random variable....
P(X=k)=(k)*e-k/k!
where = is both the mean as well as the variance of X
 
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here =5 and we require  P(X=1)+P(x=0)....sub in the above formula n we get the ans as 6/e5
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