Answer to Question #146139 in Statistics and Probability for Alexis M Keener

Question

On average, a clothing store gets 120 customers per day.

56. Assume the event occurs independently in any given day. Define the random variable X.

Answer 1

X = the number of customers the store gets per day. X follows a Poisson distribution with λ = average number of customers per day.

X ~ P(120)