OCR Further Statistics AS 2024 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics AS (Further Statistics AS)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeConditional probability with Poisson

  1. Find the probability that 4 telephone calls are received in a randomly chosen one-minute period.
  2. A sample of 10 independent observations of \(X\) is obtained. Find the expected number of these 10 observations that are in the interval \(2 < X < 8\). It is also known that
    \(P ( X + Y = 4 ) = \frac { 27 } { 8 } P ( X = 2 ) \times P ( Y = 2 )\).
  3. Determine the possible values of \(\mathrm { E } ( Y )\).
  4. Explain where in your solution to part (c) you have used the assumption that telephone calls and e-mails are received independently of one another.