CAIE S2 2021 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeScaled time period sums

1 Accidents at two factories occur randomly and independently. On average, the numbers of accidents per month are 3.1 at factory \(A\) and 1.7 at factory \(B\). Find the probability that the total number of accidents in the two factories during a \(2 -\) month period is more than 3 .