OCR S3 2016 June — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeTwo independent Poisson sums

1 On a motorway, lorries pass an observation point independently and at random times. The mean number of lorries travelling north is 6 per minute and the mean number travelling south is 8 per minute. Find the probability that at least 16 lorries pass the observation point in a given 1 -minute period.