Records show that the average number of job applications received per week is 5.9. Find the probability of 6 job applications received in a given week.

16.05% probability of 6 job applications received in a given week.

Step-by-step explanation:

When you have the mean during an interval, you should use the Poisson distribution.

In a Poisson distribution, the probability that X represents the number of successes of a random variable is given by the following formula:

In which

x is the number of sucesses

e = 2.71828 is the Euler number

is the mean in the given interval.

Records show that the average number of job applications received per week is 5.9.

This means that

Find the probability of 6 job applications received in a given week.

This is P(X = 6).

16.05% probability of 6 job applications received in a given week.