CAIE S2 2024 June — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeTwo independent Poisson sums

5 The number of goals scored by a sports team in the first half of any match has the distribution \(X \sim \mathrm { Po }\) (3.1). The number of goals scored by the same team in the second half of any match has the distribution \(Y \sim \operatorname { Po } ( 2.4 )\). You may assume that the distributions of \(X\) and \(Y\) are independent.
  1. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( X < 4 )\).
  2. Find the probability that, in a randomly chosen match, the team scores at least 5 goals.
  3. Given that the team scores a total of 5 goals in a randomly chosen match, find the probability that they score exactly 3 goals in the first half.