CAIE S2 2003 November — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2003
SessionNovember
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeFinding maximum n for P(X=0) threshold

4 The number of emergency telephone calls to the electricity board office in a certain area in \(t\) minutes is known to follow a Poisson distribution with mean \(\frac { 1 } { 80 } t\).
  1. Find the probability that there will be at least 3 emergency telephone calls to the office in any 20-minute period.
  2. The probability that no emergency telephone call is made to the office in a period of \(k\) minutes is 0.9 . Find \(k\).