Understanding the Power Function for Poisson Distribution

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In this link:

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~phorn/362/362assn3-solns.pdf

I do not understand how they got the power function for number 5...can anybody explain it to me please?

Thanks in advance
 
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haruspex said:
You understand that Y ~ Poisson(12θ)? Given that, what are the probabilities for Y being 0, 1, 2?

Oh, ok thanks.