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The suicide rate in a certain state is 1 suicide per 100,000 inhabitants per month.(a) Fin...

The suicide rate in a certain state is 1 suicide per 100,000 inhabitants per month.

(a) Find the probability that in a city of 400,000 inhabitants within this state, there will be 8 or more suicides in a given month.


(b) What is the probability that there will be at least 2 months during the year that will have 8 or more suicides?


(c)Counting the present month as month number 1, what is the probability that the first month to have 8 or more suicides will be month number i, i ≥ 1?

What assumptions are you making?

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