WJEC Further Unit 2 2024 June — Question 1 14 marks

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 2 (Further Unit 2)
Year2024
SessionJune
Marks14
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TopicSum of Poisson processes
TypeRescale rate then sum Poissons
DifficultyStandard +0.3 This is a straightforward application of standard Poisson distribution techniques (scaling rates, adding independent Poisson processes, memoryless property, and normal approximation to binomial). All parts follow textbook procedures with no novel problem-solving required, making it slightly easier than average for Further Maths statistics.
Spec5.02i Poisson distribution: random events model5.02j Poisson formula: P(X=x) = e^(-lambda)*lambda^x/x!5.02k Calculate Poisson probabilities5.03a Continuous random variables: pdf and cdf

Dave and Llinos like to go fishing. When they go fishing, on average, Dave catches 4.3 fish per day and Llinos catches 3.8 fish per day. A day of fishing is assumed to be 8 hours.
    1. Calculate the probability that they will catch fewer than 2 fish in total on a randomly selected half-day of fishing.
    2. Justify any distribution you have used in answering (a)(i).
    (b) On a randomly selected day, Dave starts fishing at 7 am. Given that Dave has not caught a fish by 11 am,
    1. find the expected time he catches his first fish,
    2. calculate the probability that he will not catch a fish by 3 pm .
    (c) On average, only \(2 \%\) of the fish that Llinos catches are trout. Over the course of a year, she catches 950 fish. Calculate the probability that at least 30 of these fish are trout. [3]
    [0pt] she catches 950 fish. Calculate the probability that at least 30 of these fish are trout. [3]
  1. State, with a reason, a distribution, including any parameters, that could approximate the distribution used in part (c).
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Dave and Llinos like to go fishing. When they go fishing, on average, Dave catches 4.3 fish per day and Llinos catches 3.8 fish per day. A day of fishing is assumed to be 8 hours.\\
(a)
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\roman*)]
\item Calculate the probability that they will catch fewer than 2 fish in total on a randomly selected half-day of fishing.
\item Justify any distribution you have used in answering (a)(i).\\
\end{enumerate}(b) On a randomly selected day, Dave starts fishing at 7 am. Given that Dave has not caught a fish by 11 am,\\
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\roman*)]
\item find the expected time he catches his first fish,
\item calculate the probability that he will not catch a fish by 3 pm .\\
\end{enumerate}(c) On average, only $2 \%$ of the fish that Llinos catches are trout. Over the course of a year, she catches 950 fish. Calculate the probability that at least 30 of these fish are trout. [3]\\[0pt]
she catches 950 fish. Calculate the probability that at least 30 of these fish are trout. [3]\\

(d) State, with a reason, a distribution, including any parameters, that could approximate the distribution used in part (c).\\



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