Highway accidents example

On a certain turn on a very busy highway, there are 2 accidents per day. Let's assume the number of accidents per day can be modeled as a Poisson random variable and is distributed as in the following plot:

Probability mass function

For your convenience, the poisson object has already been imported from the scipy.stats library.

Aiming to improve road safety, the transportation agency of the regional government has assigned you the following tasks.

This exercise is part of the course

Foundations of Probability in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the poisson object
from scipy.stats import poisson

# Probability of 5 accidents any day
P_five_accidents = poisson.___(k=____, mu=____)

# Print the result
print(____)