CAIE S2 2020 November — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeStandard Poisson approximation to binomial

1 On average, 1 in 50000 people have a certain gene.
Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that more than 2 people in a random sample of 150000 have the gene.