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Use the Poisson Distribution to Find the Indicated Probability

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Use the Poisson Distribution to find the indicated probability.
-In one town, the number of burglaries in a week has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 1.9. Find the probability that in a randomly selected week the number of burglaries is at least three.


A) 0.8290
B) 0.1710
C) 0.7037
D) 0.1253
E) 0.2963

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