| Exam Board | CAIE |
| Module | FP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Session | June |
| Topic | Exponential Distribution |
| Type | Link 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.