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Given, the maternity ward at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila in the Philippines is one of the busiest in the world with an average of 60 births per day. Let X = the number of births in an hour. We have to find the probability that the maternity ward will deliver more than five babies in one hour.

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Step 1.
According to the given information,  = the number of births in an hour, it follows a Poisson distribution with parameter 2.5 . 
 
 
 
The probability that the maternity ward will deliver more than five babies in one hour is 
 
 

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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