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Suppose that in a city, the number of suicides can be approximated by a Poisson process...

Suppose that in a city, the number of suicides can be approximated by a Poisson process with λ = .33 per month.

a. Find the probability of k suicides in a year for k = 0, 1, 2, . . . . What is the most probable number of suicides?

b. What is the probability of two suicides in one week?

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