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.)