Edexcel FS1 2023 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFS1 (Further Statistics 1)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson hypothesis test

  1. Telephone calls arrive at a call centre randomly, at an average rate of 1.7 per minute. After the call centre was closed for a week, in a random sample of 10 minutes there were 25 calls to the call centre.
    1. Carry out a suitable test to determine whether or not there is evidence that the rate of calls arriving at the call centre has changed.
      Use a \(5 \%\) level of significance and state your hypotheses clearly.
    Only 1.2\% of the calls to the call centre last longer than 8 minutes.
    One day Tiang has 70 calls.
  2. Find the probability that out of these 70 calls Tiang has more than 2 calls lasting longer than 8 minutes. The call centre records show that \(95 \%\) of days have at least one call lasting longer than 30 minutes.
    On Wednesday 900 calls arrived at the call centre and none of them lasted longer than 30 minutes.
  3. Use a Poisson approximation to estimate the proportion of calls arriving at the call centre that last longer than 30 minutes.