CAIE S2 2015 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeSingle time period probability

6 A publishing firm has found that errors in the first draft of a new book occur at random and that, on average, there is 1 error in every 3 pages of a first draft. Find the probability that in a particular first draft there are
  1. exactly 2 errors in 10 pages,
  2. at least 3 errors in 6 pages,
  3. fewer than 50 errors in 200 pages.