CAIE S2 2004 November — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2004
SessionNovember
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypeTwo independent Poisson sums

1 The number of radioactive particles emitted per second by a certain metal is random and has mean 1.7. The radioactive metal is placed next to an object which independently emits particles at random such that the mean number of particles emitted per second is 0.6 . Find the probability that the total number of particles emitted in the next 3 seconds is 6, 7 or 8 .