The number of knots in a particular type of wood has a

Chapter 3, Problem 131E

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Problem 131E

The number of knots in a particular type of wood has a Poisson distribution with an average of 1.5 knots in 10 cubic feet of the wood. Find the probability that a 10-cubic-foot block of the wood has at most 1 knot.

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Problem 131E

The number of knots in a particular type of wood has a Poisson distribution with an average of 1.5 knots in 10 cubic feet of the wood. Find the probability that a 10-cubic-foot block of the wood has at most 1 knot.

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The number of knots in a particular type of wood has a Poisson distribution with an average of  of the wood.

We need to find the probability that a  block of wood has at most

Let the random variable  is a number of knots in the wood.

We have given that the  follows a Poisson distribution.

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