OCR MEI Further Statistics A AS Specimen — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Statistics A AS (Further Statistics A AS)
SessionSpecimen
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeSingle time period probability

1 The number of failures of a machine each week at a factory is modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean 0.45.
  1. Write down the variance of the distribution.
  2. Find the probability that there are exactly 2 failures in a week.
  3. State a distribution which can be used to model the number of failures in a period of 4 weeks.
  4. Find the probability that there are at least 2 failures in a period of 4 weeks.