CAIE FP2 2009 June — Question 10

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicExponential Distribution
TypeLink Poisson to exponential

10 The number of hits per minute on a particular website has a Poisson distribution with mean 0.8. The time between successive hits is denoted by \(T\) minutes. Show that \(\mathrm { P } ( T > t ) = \mathrm { e } ^ { - 0.8 t }\) and hence show that \(T\) has a negative exponential distribution. Using a suitable approximation, which should be justified, find the probability that the time interval between the 1st hit and the 51st hit exceeds one hour.