In 1910, E. Rutherford and H. Geiger showed experimentally that the number of alpha particles emitted per second in a radioactive process is a random variable X having a Poisson distribution. If X has mean 0.5, what is the probability of observing two or more particles during any given second?

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In 1910, E. Rutherford and H. Geiger showed experimentally that the number of alpha particles emitted per second in a radioactive process is a random variable X having a Poisson distribution. If X has mean 0.5, what is the probability of observing two or more particles during any given second?

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