OCR S2 2012 January — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJanuary
TopicApproximating the Binomial to the Poisson distribution
TypeState Poisson approximation with justification

2 The random variable \(Y\) has the distribution \(\mathrm { B } ( 140,0.03 )\). Use a suitable approximation to find \(\mathrm { P } ( Y = 5 )\). Justify your approximation.