True or False: Suppose that the number of airplanes arriving at an airport per minute is a Poisson
process.The mean number of airplanes arriving per minute is 3.The probability that exactly 6
planes arrive in the next minute is 0.05041.

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The probability of exactly k events in a Poisson distribution is given by $ P(k; \lambda) = \frac{e^{-\lambda} \lambda^k}{k!} $. For k=6 and λ=3, this calculates to approximately 0.05041.

True or False: Suppose That the Number of Airplanes Arriving