MATH 314 Quiz 12

Please submit a Jupyter notebook to the following repository by today at 4.00pm with your solution(s) to problem 1. below.

  1. A seismologist has been studying the frequency of small earthquakes in a particular geologically active region. Over the course of several years, she determines that on average, there are 3.5 small earthquakes per day in this region.
    1. What is the probability that on a given day there are exactly 2 earthquakes?
    2. What is the probability that on a given day there are 3 or more earthquakes?
    3. Over the course of a week (7 days), what's the probability that there is at most 5 earthquakes?