CAIE S2 2005 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2005
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeJoint probability of separate processes

6 At a petrol station cars arrive independently and at random times at constant average rates of 8 cars per hour travelling east and 5 cars per hour travelling west.
  1. Find the probability that, in a quarter-hour period,
    (a) one or more cars travelling east and one or more cars travelling west will arrive,
    (b) a total of 2 or more cars will arrive.
  2. Find the approximate probability that, in a 12 -hour period, a total of more than 175 cars will arrive.