SOA Exam P Sample Question 572
Study guide: Exam P-1
In a large city, 40% of the intersections are safe, while all others are dangerous. The numbers of accidents occurring annually at individual safe and dangerous intersections are Poisson distributed with means 0.5 and 1.0, respectively.
No accidents occurred during 2004 at Thirty-Fourth Street and Vine Street, an intersection within the city.
Calculate the probability that Thirty-Fourth Street and Vine is a safe intersection.
- A)
0.24 - B)
0.40 - C)
0.46 - D)
0.52 - E)
0.62
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