OCR S3 2009 January — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2009
SessionJanuary
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeExpectation and variance of Poisson-related expressions

1 At a particular hospital, admissions of patients as a result of visits to the Accident and Emergency Department occur randomly at a uniform average rate of 0.75 per day. Independently, admissions that result from G.P. referrals occur randomly at a uniform average rate of 6.4 per week. The total number of admissions from these two causes over a randomly chosen period of four weeks is denoted by \(T\). State the distribution of \(T\) and obtain its expectation and variance.