OCR S2 2009 June — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeState conditions only

5 In a large region of derelict land, bricks are found scattered in the earth.
  1. State two conditions needed for the number of bricks per cubic metre to be modelled by a Poisson distribution. Assume now that the number of bricks in 1 cubic metre of earth can be modelled by the distribution Po(3).
  2. Find the probability that the number of bricks in 4 cubic metres of earth is between 8 and 14 inclusive.
  3. Find the size of the largest volume of earth for which the probability that no bricks are found is at least 0.4.