Edexcel S2 2011 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2011
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson with binomial combination

5. Defects occur at random in planks of wood with a constant rate of 0.5 per 10 cm length. Jim buys a plank of length 100 cm .
  1. Find the probability that Jim's plank contains at most 3 defects. Shivani buys 6 planks each of length 100 cm .
  2. Find the probability that fewer than 2 of Shivani's planks contain at most 3 defects.
  3. Using a suitable approximation, estimate the probability that the total number of defects on Shivani's 6 planks is less than 18.