CAIE S2 2024 March — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2024
SessionMarch
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeTwo independent Poisson sums

5 A teacher models the numbers of girls and boys who arrive late for her class on any day by the independent random variables \(G \sim \operatorname { Po } ( 0.10 )\) and \(B \sim \operatorname { Po } ( 0.15 )\) respectively.
  1. Find the probability that during a randomly chosen 2-day period no girls arrive late.
  2. Find the probability that during a randomly chosen 5-day period the total number of students who arrive late is less than 3 .
  3. It is given that the values of \(\mathrm { P } ( G = r )\) and \(\mathrm { P } ( B = r )\) for \(r \geqslant 3\) are very small and can be ignored. Find the probability that on a randomly chosen day more girls arrive late than boys.
    Following a timetable change the teacher claims that on average more students arrive late than before the change. During a randomly chosen 5-day period a total of 4 students are late.
  4. Test the teacher's claim at the \(5 \%\) significance level.