Arrivals in a university advising office during the week of registration are known to follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 4 people arriving each hour

(a) What is the probability that exactly 4 people will arrive in the next hour?
(b) What is the probability that exactly 5 people will arrive in the next hour?

(a) P(X = 4 ) = 0.1954 (b) P(X = 5 ) = 0.1563

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