OCR FS1 AS 2021 June — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFS1 AS (Further Statistics 1 AS)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeMultiple independent time periods

1 On any day, the number of orders received in one randomly chosen hour by an online supplier can be modelled by the distribution \(\mathrm { Po } ( 120 )\).
  1. Find the probability that at least 28 orders are received in a randomly chosen 10 -minute period.
  2. Find the probability that in a randomly chosen 10-minute period on one day and a randomly chosen 10-minute period on the next day a total of at least 56 orders are received.
  3. State a necessary assumption for the validity of your calculation in part (b).
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