CAIE S2 2024 November — Question 6

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

6 The numbers of customers arriving at service desks \(A\) and \(B\) during a 10 -minute period have the independent distributions \(\operatorname { Po } ( 1.8 )\) and \(\operatorname { Po } ( 2.1 )\) respectively.
  1. Find the probability that during a randomly chosen 15 -minute period more than 2 customers will arrive at \(\operatorname { desk } A\).
  2. Find the probability that during a randomly chosen 5-minute period the total number of customers arriving at both desks is less than 4 .
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  3. An inspector waits at desk \(B\). She wants to wait long enough to be \(90 \%\) certain of seeing at least one customer arrive at the desk. Find the minimum time for which she should wait, giving your answer correct to the nearest minute.
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