A person with a cough is a persona non grata on airplanes, elevators, or at the theater.
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A person with a cough is a persona non grata on airplanes, elevators, or at the theater. In theaters especially, the irritation level rises with each muffled explosion. According to Dr. Brian Carlin, a Pittsburgh pulmonologist, in any large audience you’ll hear about 11 coughs per minute
(a) Let r = number of coughs in a given time interval. Explain why the Poisson distribution would be a good choice for the probability distribution of r.
(b) Find the probability of three or fewer coughs (in a large auditorium) in a 1-minute period.
(c) Find the probability of at least three coughs (in a large auditorium) in a 30-second period.
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Understandable Statistics Concepts And Methods
ISBN: 9781337119917
12th Edition
Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
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