CAIE S2 2017 November — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2017
SessionNovember
TopicApproximating the Poisson to the Normal distribution
TypeSimple probability using normal approximation

1 A random variable, \(X\), has the distribution \(\operatorname { Po } ( 31 )\). Use the normal approximation to the Poisson distribution to find \(\mathrm { P } ( X > 40 )\).