(All Steps) In reply to an article on meteor strikes, a letter to the editor appeared in Scientific American in September 2013. Here is an excerpt from


Question: In reply to an article on meteor strikes, a letter to the editor appeared in Scientific American in September 2013.  Here is an excerpt from the letter.

" ... if we assume that meteor strikes are random and independent and follow a Poisson distribution with a mean of one per 100 years, then the probability of a strike in any given year is about 1 percent ... "  (Nicolich, 2013)

Explain how that probability is computed.  (You may use the Excel POISSON function described in the handout in Course Materials.)

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