CAIE S2 2018 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeScaled time period sums

1 The numbers of alpha, beta and gamma particles emitted per minute by a certain piece of rock have independent distributions \(\operatorname { Po } ( 0.2 ) , \operatorname { Po } ( 0.3 )\) and \(\operatorname { Po } ( 0.6 )\) respectively. Find the probability that the total number of particles emitted during a 4 -minute period is less than 4.