5 Over a long period of time, it is found that the mean number of mistakes made by a certain player when playing a particular piece of music is 5 .
The number of mistakes that the player makes when playing the piece is denoted by the random variable \(Y\).
- State two assumptions necessary for \(Y\) to be modelled by a Poisson distribution.
For the remainder of this question you may assume that \(Y\) can be modelled by a Poisson distribution.
- Find the probability that the player makes exactly 3 mistakes when playing the piece.
- Find the probability that the player makes fewer than 3 mistakes when playing the piece.
- Find the probability that the player makes fewer than 6 mistakes in total when playing the piece twice, assuming that the performances are independent.
In a recording studio, the player plays the piece once in the morning and once in the afternoon each day for one week (7 days). It can be assumed that all the performances are independent of each other.
The performances are recorded onto two CDs, one for each of two critics, A and B, to review. The critics are interested in the total number of mistakes made by the player per day. Unfortunately, there is a recording error in one of the CDs; on this CD, every piece that is supposed to be an afternoon recording is in fact just a repeat of that morning’s recording.
The random variables \(M _ { 1 }\) and \(M _ { 2 }\) represent the total number of mistakes per day for the correctly recorded CD and for the wrongly recorded CD respectively.
- By considering the values of \(\mathrm { E } \left( M _ { 1 } \right)\) and \(\mathrm { E } \left( M _ { 2 } \right)\) explain why it is not possible to use the mean number of mistakes per day on the CDs to determine which critic received the wrongly recorded CD.
Each critic counts the total number of mistakes made per day, for each of the 7 days of recordings on their CD. Summary data for this is given below.
Critic A: \(\quad n = 7 , \quad \sum x _ { A } = 70 , \quad \sum x _ { A } ^ { 2 } = 812\)
Critic B: \(\quad \mathrm { n } = 7 , \sum \mathrm { x } _ { \mathrm { B } } = 72 , \sum \mathrm { x } _ { \mathrm { B } } ^ { 2 } = 800\) - By considering the values of \(\operatorname { Var } \left( M _ { 1 } \right)\) and \(\operatorname { Var } \left( M _ { 2 } \right)\) determine which critic is likely to have received the wrongly recorded CD.