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Use the following information to answer the next six exercises: On average, a clothing store gets120 customers per day.

What is the probability that the store will have fewer than 12customers in the first two hours?

Short Answer

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The probability of getting smaller than 12guests in the first two hours at the store i.e.,P(Y<12)is 0.0214

Step by step solution

01

:Given 

Number of guests per day=120
Number of opening hours per day =12
Let us define a arbitrary variableY as
Y=number of guests arriving in the first two hours at the apparel store.Y follows a Poisson distribution
Formulaused
The probability ofysuccesses is the given as
localid="1648544017477" P(Y=y)=e-λλyy!=;y=0,1,2,3,......&λ>0

02

Calculation

Number of guests per hour=120/12=10
Number of guests per two hours=10*2=20
Thus, in this caseλ=average number of guests per two hours=20i.e.,Y~P(20).
We want to find the probability of getting smaller than 12 guests in the first two hours i.e.,P(Y<12). This can be attained as
P(Y<12)=P(Y=0)+P(Y=1)+P(Y=2)+.....+P(Y=11)
=y=011e-λλyy!=0.0214

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