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On the average, 6.7 cars arrive at the drive-up window of a bank every hour. Define the random variable X to be the number of cars arriving in any hour.
a.What is the appropriate probability distribution for X? Explain how X satisfies the properties of the distribution.
b.Compute the probability that exactly 5 cars will arrive in the next hour.
c.Compute the probability that no more than 5 cars will arrive in the next hour.
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