A wire manufacturing company has inspectors to examine the

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A wire manufacturing company has inspectors to examine the wire for fractures as it comes out of a machine. The number of fractures is distributed in accordance with a Poisson process, having one fracture on the average for every 60 meters of wire. One day an inspector has to take an emergency phone call and is missing from his post for ten minutes. If the machine turns out 7 meters of wire per minute, what is the probability that the inspector will miss more than one fracture?

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QUESTION:

A wire manufacturing company has inspectors to examine the wire for fractures as it comes out of a machine. The number of fractures is distributed in accordance with a Poisson process, having one fracture on the average for every 60 meters of wire. One day an inspector has to take an emergency phone call and is missing from his post for ten minutes. If the machine turns out 7 meters of wire per minute, what is the probability that the inspector will miss more than one fracture?

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Given:

The number of fractures is distributed in accordance with a Poisson process.

The average is 60 meters of wire.

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