OCR S3 2007 June — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson parameter from given probability

5 A music store sells both upright and grand pianos. Grand pianos are sold at random times and at a constant average weekly rate \(\lambda\). The probability that in one week no grand pianos are sold is 0.45 .
  1. Show that \(\lambda = 0.80\), correct to 2 decimal places. Upright pianos are sold, independently, at random times and at a constant average weekly rate \(\mu\). During a period of 100 weeks the store sold 180 upright pianos.
  2. Calculate the probability that the total number of pianos sold in a randomly chosen week will exceed 3.
  3. Calculate the probability that over a period of 3 weeks the store sells a total of 6 pianos during the first week and a total of 4 pianos during the next fortnight.