Mathematics 9709 · AS & A Level · The Poisson distribution

The Poisson distribution — practice question

Customers come into a shop at a steady mean rate of 2.3 per minute.
(a)[1]

State one further condition for the number of customers arriving per minute to have a Poisson distribution.

(b)[2]

It is now assumed that the number of customers arriving per minute has the distribution $\mathrm{Po}(2.3)$. Find the probability that exactly 3 customers arrive in a 1-minute interval.

(c)[3]

Find the probability that more than 3 customers arrive in a 2-minute interval.

(d)[3]

Five 1-minute periods are selected at random. Find the probability that no customers arrive in exactly 2 of these 5 periods.

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