Edexcel FS1 AS 2020 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFS1 AS (Further Statistics 1 AS)
Year2020
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeMultiple periods with binomial structure

  1. A plumbing company receives call-outs during the working day at an average rate of 2.4 per hour.
    1. Find the probability that the company receives exactly 7 call-outs in a randomly selected 3 -hour period of a working day.
    The company has enough staff to respond to 28 call-outs in an 8 -hour working day.
  2. Show that the probability that the company receives more than 28 call-outs in a randomly selected 8 -hour working day is 0.022 to 3 decimal places. In a random sample of 100 working days each of 8 hours,
    1. find the expected number of days that the company receives more than 28 call-outs,
    2. find the standard deviation of the number of days that the company receives more than 28 call-outs,
    3. use a Poisson approximation to estimate the probability that the company receives more than 28 call-outs on at least 6 of these days.