I got this one was wrong can you help? A telephone company's goal is to have no more than 6 monthly line failures on any

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I got this one was wrong can you help? A telephone company's goal is to have no more than 6 monthly line failures on any

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I got this one was wrong can you help?
A telephone company's goal is to have no more than 6 monthlyline failures on any 100 miles of line. The company currentlyexperiences an average of 3 monthly line failures per 50 miles ofline. Let x denote the number of monthly line failures per 100miles of line. Assuming x has a Poisson distribution: (d) Find theprobability that the company will have more than 12 monthlyfailures on a particular 150 miles of line. (Do not roundintermediate calculations. Round final answer to 4 decimalplaces.)
answer : 0.1262
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