Florida gulf coast has a poisson distribution


1. In any given year, the number of huricanes that hit the Florida gulf coast has a Poisson distribution. The parameter of the distribution is itself random, and assumed to be uniformly distributed on the range [0,5].

a) Find the probability that the number of hurricanes that hit the coast in a given year is two or fewer.

b) Compute the variance of the number of hurricanes in a given year.

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