Poisson variable

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The number of daily flaws of the machines of a factory is given by a Poisson variable with mean 3. Each flaw is fixed by one maintenance employee in a whole day. How many maintenance employees are needed if they want to fix every flaw with probability 0.9?

So far I've thought that if $X$ is the number of daily flaws then $X \sim Poisson(3)$

And so $X$ is also the number of employees needed.

So we would be looking for an n (number of employees) such that $\mathbb{P}(\mbox{ fixing every flaw }) =0.9$

Then, fixing every flaw only happens if X=n.

So we would be looking for a n such that $\mathbb{P}(X=n) =0.9$ i.e. $\frac{e^{-3}3^n}{n!}=0.9$

But that does not make sense, Or does it?