Edexcel S2 2017 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2017
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeSingle time period probability

  1. A company receives telephone calls at random at a mean rate of 2.5 per hour.
    1. Find the probability that the company receives
      1. at least 4 telephone calls in the next hour,
      2. exactly 3 telephone calls in the next 15 minutes.
    2. Find, to the nearest minute, the maximum length of time the telephone can be left unattended so that the probability of missing a telephone call is less than 0.2
    The company puts an advert in the local newspaper. The number of telephone calls received in a randomly selected 2 hour period after the paper is published is 10
  2. Test at the 5\% level of significance whether or not the mean rate of telephone calls has increased. State your hypotheses clearly.