CAIE S2 2018 June — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeConditional probability with Poisson

4 The numbers, \(M\) and \(F\), of male and female students who leave a particular school each year to study engineering have means 3.1 and 0.8 respectively.
  1. State, in context, one condition required for \(M\) to have a Poisson distribution.
    Assume that \(M\) and \(F\) can be modelled by independent Poisson distributions.
  2. Find the probability that the total number of students who leave to study engineering in a particular year is more than 3 .
  3. Given that the total number of students who leave to study engineering in a particular year is more than 3 , find the probability that no female students leave to study engineering in that year.