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Asteroid collisions in a million years
High school · ●○○○○ 10 pts
Asteroids with a diameter of at least 1 km collide with the Earth at a rate of approximately 2 per million years. Assume collisions occur according to a Poisson process. What is the probability that in a randomly selected million-year period there is exactly one collision? Round to four decimal places.