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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability-resit/8/b/iii/solution

For each student, the probability of both falling asleep and dreaming about mathematics is . These indicators are independent across students, so the same Poisson thinning calculation gives, for the requested count ,
Explicitly , the probability generating function of that Poisson distribution.

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