Question

A fishing company operates a search plane to find schools of fish in the ocean. Schools of fish are randomly located in the ocean. On average, there is one school of fish per 100,000 square miles of ocean. During any one day, the plane can search 10,000 square miles.

1. What is the expected number of schools of fish found in one day of searching? a. 3 b. 1 c. 0.3 d. 0.1

2. What is the probability of finding at least one school of fish in one day of searching? a. 0.0905 b. 0.0952 c. 0.2592 d. 0.9502

3. What is the expected number of schools of fish found in three days of searching? a. 1 b. 0.3 c. 3 d. 0.9

4. What is the probability of finding at least one school of fish during three days of searching? a. 0.0110 b. 0.2222 c. 0.2592 d. 0.0007

5. What is the probability of finding 3 schools of fish during three days of searching? a. 0.0036 b. 0.0033 c. 0.5768 d. 0.2240

Answer 1

one school of fish per 100,000 square miles of ocean.

the plane can search 10,000 square miles/one day

1.the expected number of schools of fish found in one day of searching

λ= 10000(1/100000) = 0.1

2.the probability of finding at least one school of fish in one day of searching = 1-P(number of school of fish/day)

P(number of school of fish/day) = P(x=x) = (λ^xe^-λ)/x!

P(x=0) = (0.1⁰e^-0.1)/0! = 0.9048

=1-0.9048 = 0.0952

3. the expected number of schools of fish found in three days of searching = 3×0.1 = 0.3

4.the probability of finding at least one school of fish during three days of searching

= P(x≥1) = 1-p(x<1) = 1-p(x=0) = 1-(0.3⁰e^-0.3)/0! = 0.2592

5.the probability of finding 3 schools of fish during three days of searching

= P(x=3) = (0.3³e^-0.3)/3! = 0.0033