Use the chernoff bound to find an upper bound

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Let K be a Poisson random variable with expected value α. Use the Chernoff bound to find an upper bound to P[K ≥ c]. For what values of c do we obtain the trivial upper bound P[K ≥ c] ≤ 1?

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