Poisson process. Finding 5th and 95th centiles

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I am an undergraduate student of Economics. Today I was trying to solve 1 exercise related to Poisson process that I found confusing and I would be very grateful for your help, as my Mathematics knowledge is quite basic.

So the exercise is:

The average number of calls (which follow the Poisson process) per hour is 4,25. 24% of the calls are unpleasant.

1) What is a probability that in 1 hour will be received exactly 6 normal and 1 unpleasant call?

2) If call duration is Normally distributed, what is 5th and 95th centile? (In Normal distribution 95th centile is z=1.96)


MY SOLUTION: 1) to find a $\theta^1$ for unpleasant calls and $\theta^2$ for normal calls:

$\theta^1 = 0.24 * 4.25 = 1.02$

$\theta^2= 4.25 - 1.02 = 3.23$

X - average number of Normal calls per hour

Y - average number of Unpleasant calls per hour

$P(X=6, Y=1 | X+Y=7) = \frac{\frac{e^{-3.23} * 3.23^6}{6!} * e^{-1.02} * 1.02}{ \frac{e^{-4.25} * 4.25^7}{7!}} $

Please tell me what do you think because I really feel I am mistaken somewhere and not sure if the Poisson parameter $\theta$ can be splitted in 2 parts.

Also if somebody could give any idea about 2) question I would be very grateful.