Edexcel S2 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeSingle period normal approximation

4. It is believed that the number of sets of traffic lights that fail per hour in a particular large city follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 3 . Find the probability that
  1. there will be no failures in a one-hour period,
  2. there will be more than 4 failures in a 30 -minute period. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that in a 24-hour period there will be
  3. less than 60 failures,
  4. exactly 72 failures.