Edexcel S2 2023 June — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeConditional probability with Poisson

  1. A bakery sells muffins individually at an average rate of 8 muffins per hour.
    1. Find the probability that, in a randomly selected one-hour period, the bakery sells at least 4 but not more than 8 muffins.
    A sample of 5 non-overlapping half-hour periods is selected at random.
  2. Find the probability that the bakery sells fewer than 3 muffins in exactly 2 of these periods. Given that 4 muffins were sold in a one-hour period,
  3. find the probability that more muffins were sold in the first 15 minutes than in the last 45 minutes.