CAIE S2 Specimen — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeFinding minimum n for P(X=0) threshold

5 On average, 1 in 2500 adults has a certain medical condition.
  1. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that, in a random sample of 4000 people, more than 3 have this condition.
  2. In a random sample of \(n\) people, where \(n\) is large, the probability that none has the condition is less than 0.05 . Find the smallest possible value of \(n\).