CAIE S2 2018 June — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicApproximating the Poisson to the Normal distribution
TypeScaled Poisson over time period

3 The number of e-readers sold in a 10-day period in a shop is modelled by the distribution \(\operatorname { Po } ( 5.1 )\). Use an approximating distribution to find the probability that fewer than 140 e-readers are sold in a 300-day period.