Edexcel S2 2022 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2022
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson with binomial combination

  1. The independent random variables \(W\) and \(X\) have the following distributions.
$$W \sim \operatorname { Po } ( 4 ) \quad X \sim \mathrm {~B} ( 3,0.8 )$$
  1. Write down the value of the variance of \(W\)
  2. Determine the mode of \(X\) Show your working clearly. One observation from each distribution is recorded as \(W _ { 1 }\) and \(X _ { 1 }\) respectively.
  3. Find \(\mathrm { P } \left( W _ { 1 } = 2 \right.\) and \(\left. X _ { 1 } = 2 \right)\)
  4. Find \(\mathrm { P } \left( X _ { 1 } < W _ { 1 } \right)\)