Consider a poisson distribution with an average of 3 customers per minute at the local grocery store. determine the expected number of customer arrivals for a five-minute period. 15 3 243 125

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Kolten

22 February, 19:15

Consider a poisson distribution with an average of 3 customers per minute at the local grocery store. determine the expected number of customer arrivals for a five-minute period. 15 3 243 125

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John Farley · Answer 1

The mean of the Poisson distribution remains the same at all periods, which means that it cannot have a higher mean at one place over the others.

So the mean over 5 minutes is 5*3=15 arrivals.