Answer to Question #188447 in Statistics and Probability for Wedson Mbalo

Question

The number of lost bags per flight at Ango Airport follows a Poisson 

distribution with µ = 0.4.

a. Specify the Poisson distribution for lost bags per flight.

b. What is the probability that no bags will be lost in a randomly 

selected flight? 

c. What is the probability that at least 2 bags will be lost in a randomly 

selected flight? 

Answer 1

a) The Poisson distribution for lost bags implies that in a day with a sample of10 flights, there are 4 bags which will get lost.

b) Let X be the event that a bag gets lost.