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A store selling newspapers orders only n = 5 copies of a certain newspaper every day...

A store selling newspapers orders only n = 5 copies of a certain newspaper every day because of lack of demand. If the number of requests per day (each request is to purchase a copy of the newspaper) follows a Poisson distribution with mean 4.0.  

a) what is the probability that there are at least three requests to purchase the newspaper in a day?

b) what is the expected value of the number sold in a day? Note: The answer is not 4.0, and the reason for this is that there are two random variables here: the number of papers sold and the number of requests to purchase a paper. These two random variables are not exactly the same as each other.

c) how many should the store order so that the chance of running out (i.e., sold out) is less than 0.01?

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