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SOA Exam P Sample Question 302

Study guide: Exam P-1

The number of automobile accidents on any day in a city has a Poisson distribution with mean 4. The number of accidents on a given day is independent of the number on any other day.

Calculate the probability that at most one accident occurs in a three-day period.

  • A) 13e^{-12}
  • B) 72e^{-12}
  • C) 85e^{-12}
  • D) 5e^{-4}
  • E) 13e^{-4}

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