An emergency room at a particular hospital gets an average of five patients per hour. A doctor wants to know the probability that the ER gets more than five patients per hour. Give the reason why this would be a Poisson distribution.
This problem wants to find the probability of events occurring in a fixed interval of time with a known average rate. The events are independent.
Notation for the poisson: p = poisson probability distribution function
X ~
P (
μ )
Read this as "
X is a random variable with a Poisson distribution." The parameter is
μ (or
λ );
μ (or
λ ) = the mean for the interval of interest.
Leah's answering machine receives about six telephone calls between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. What is the probability that Leah receives more than one call
in the next 15 minutes?
Let
X = the number of calls Leah receives in 15 minutes. (The
interval of interest is 15 minutes or
hour.)
x = 0, 1, 2, 3, ...
If Leah receives, on the average, six telephone calls in two hours, and there are eight 15 minute intervals in two hours, then Leah receives
(6) = 0.75 calls in 15 minutes, on average. So,
μ = 0.75 for this problem.
X ~
P (0.75)
Find
P (
x >1).
P (
x >1) = 0.1734 (calculator or computer)
Press 1 – and then press 2
nd DISTR.
Arrow down to poissoncdf. Press ENTER.
Enter (.75,1).
The result is
P (
x >1) = 0.1734.
Note
The TI calculators use
λ (lambda) for the mean.
The probability that Leah receives more than one telephone call in the next 15 minutes is about 0.1734:
P (
x >1) = 1 − poissoncdf(0.75, 1).
The graph of
X ~
P (0.75) is:
The
y -axis contains the probability of
x where
X = the number of calls in 15 minutes.
A customer service center receives about ten emails every half-hour. What is the probability that the customer service center receives more than four emails in the next six minutes? Use the TI-83+ or TI-84 calculator to find the answer.
According to Baydin, an email management company, an email user gets, on average, 147 emails per day. Let
X = the number of emails an email user receives per day. The discrete random variable
X takes on the values
x = 0, 1, 2 …. The random variable
X has a Poisson distribution:
X ~
P (147). The mean is 147 emails.
What is the probability that an email user receives exactly 160 emails per day?
What is the probability that an email user receives at most 160 emails per day?
According to a recent poll by the Pew Internet Project, girls between the ages of 14 and 17 send an average of 187 text messages each day. Let
X = the number of texts that a girl aged 14 to 17 sends per day. The discrete random variable
X takes on the values
x = 0, 1, 2 …. The random variable
X has a Poisson distribution:
X ~
P (187). The mean is 187 text messages.
What is the probability that a teen girl sends exactly 175 texts per day?
What is the probability that a teen girl sends at most 150 texts per day?
is it possible to leave every good at the same level
Joseph
I don't think so. because check it, if the demand for chicken increases, people will no longer consume fish like they used to causing a fall in the demand for fish
Anuolu
is not really possible to let the value of a goods to be same at the same time.....
Salome
Suppose the inflation rate is 6%, does it mean that all the goods you purchase will cost
6% more than previous year? Provide with reasoning.
Not necessarily. To measure the inflation rate economists normally use an averaged price index of a basket of certain goods. So if you purchase goods included in the basket, you will notice that you pay 6% more, otherwise not necessarily.
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How do I calculate this question: C= 100+5yd G= 2000 T= 2000 I(planned)=200.
Suppose the actual output is 3000. What is the level of planned expenditures at this level of output?
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money as unit of account means what?
Kalombe
A unit of account is something that can be used to value goods and services and make calculations
Jim
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Muhammad
I want to know how can we define macroeconomics in one line
Muhammad
it must be .9 or 0.9
no Mpc is greater than 1
Y=100+.9Y+50
Y-.9Y=150
0.1Y/0.1=150/0.1
Y=1500
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hi can someone help me on this question
If a negative shocks shifts the IS curve to the left, what type of policy do you suggest so as to stabilize the level of output?
discuss your answer using appropriate graph.
