CAIE S2 2024 March — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2024
SessionMarch
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeStandard Poisson approximation to binomial

3 In a certain lottery, on average 1 in every 10000 tickets is a prize-winning ticket. An agent sells 6000 tickets.
  1. Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that at least 3 of the tickets sold by the agent are prize-winning tickets.
  2. Justify the use of your approximating distribution in this context.