What is the expected number of major earthquakes

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Earthquakes

Suppose the probability of a major earthquake on a given day is 1 out of 10,000.

a) What's the expected number of major earthquakes in the next 1000 days?

b) Use the Poisson model to approximate the probability that there will be at least one major earthquake in the next 1000 days.

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