CAIE S2 2020 March — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2020
SessionMarch
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeStandard Poisson approximation to binomial

1 The booklets produced by a certain publisher contain, on average, 1 incorrect letter per 30000 letters, and these errors occur randomly. A randomly chosen booklet from this publisher contains 12500 letters. Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that this booklet contains at least 2 errors.