Use the following information to answer the next six exercises: On average, a clothing store gets 120customers per day.

What is the probability that the store will have more than 12customers in the first hour?

Short Answer

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The probability of getting quite12 customers within the first hour at the shop is 0.2084.

Step by step solution

01

Given

Number of shoppers per day =120
Number of opening hours per day =12
Let us define a variable quantity Yas:
Y= number of shoppers arriving within the first hour at the shop.Y follows a statistical distribution.

02

Formula Used

The probability of ysuccesses is the given as:

P(Y=y)=e-λλyy!;y=0,1,2,..&λ>0

03

Calculation

Number of customers per hour=12012=10

Therefore, in this case λ=average number of customers per hour =10i.e., Y~P(10).

We want to find the probability of getting more than 12 customers in the first hour i.e., P(Y>12). This can be obtained as:

P(Y>12)=1-P(Y12)

=1-[P(Y=0)+P(Y=1)+P(Y=2)++P(Y=12)]

=1-y=012e-λλyy!

=1-0.7916=0.2084

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