The University Police Department Must Write, on Average, Five Tickets

Multiple Choice

The university police department must write, on average, five tickets per day to keep department revenues atbudgeted levels. Suppose the number of tickets written per day follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 5tickets per day. Find the probability that exactly eight tickets are written on a randomly selected day from thisdistribution.

A) 0.065278
B) 0.005476
C) 0.003250
D) 0.000273