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In a telephone enquiry system, the number of phone calls regarding relevant enquiry follow poisson distribution with an average of five phone calls during 10-minute time intervals. The probability that there is at the most one phone call during a 10-minute time period is

A

`(6)/(5^e)`

B

`(5)/(6)`

C

`(6)/(55)`

D

`(6)/(e^5)`

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