Solved – Poisson and Exponential Distribution- Is the following question correct

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Accidents occur with a Poisson distribution at an average of 4 per week. i.e., $\lambda= 4$.

  1. Calculate the probability of more than 5 accidents in any one week.

  2. What is the probability that at least two weeks will elapse between accident?

Query: Is is necessary to be clear that Part 2 is based on exponential distribution or time is exponentially distributed or something like this?

Note: The question is based on integrating knowledge of the Poisson and exponential distributions.

Best Answer

What is the probability that at least two weeks will elapse between accident?

This uses the fact that time between Poisson events follows the exponential distribution (probability distribution that describes the time between events in a Poisson process - wikipedia./exponential distribution). When finding the probability of at least two weeks the lower bound is 2, and the distribution has a mean of 0.25. Hope this helps.