Calculating Probability for Vehicle Traffic at a Dual Carriageway Junction

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Can someone help me out with this? (its not for school)

During the night the number of vehicles passing a particular junction on a dual carriageway follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 1.6 vehicles per minute. Calculate the probability:
(i) That in a one minute period no vehicles pass the junction. (1)
(ii) That in a one minute period more than 6 vehicles pass the junction. (2)
(iii) That in a five minute period fewer than 3 vehicles pass the junction. (3)
 
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Well, do you know what the probability density function for a Poisson distribution looks like? Do you know what the values of that function represent?
 
Even if this question really is not for school, it still belongs in a homework forum. (I moved it)