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SOA Exam P Sample Question 619

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The numbers of hits received by a website during the 1st, 2nd, ..., 1440th minutes of a given day are mutually independent Poisson random variables with common mean. The probability that there are exactly four hits during the 1st minute is 54 times the probability that there are no hits during the 1440th minute.

Calculate the number of hits the website is expected to receive in a 60-minute period.

  • A) 120
  • B) 180
  • C) 240
  • D) 300
  • E) 360

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