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5 M1 Quiz 8 Name:______________________ Class________ ( )


Binomial and Poisson Distributions (II)
Date: ___________________

(a) Mean number of takeaway orders in an hour  18


5
Mean number of takeaway orders in a five-minute interval  18 
60
 1.5
Let X be the number of takeaway orders in a five-minute interval,
then X ~ Po(1.5).
Required probability  P( X  3)
e1.5 (1.5)1 e1.5 (1.5)2
 1  e1.5  
1! 2!
 0.191 2 (cor. to 4 d.p.)

(b) P( X  0)  e1.5
Let Y be the number of five-minute intervals in which the restaurant
does not receive any takeaway orders from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
then Y ~ B(6, e1.5 ).
Required probability  P(Y  1)
 (1  e1.5 )6  C16 (e1.5 )(1  e1.5 )5
 0.598 7 (cor. to 4 d.p.)

(c) Expected number of five-minute intervals in which the restaurant does not
receive any takeaway orders
 E(Y )
 6(e 1.5 )
 1.338 8 (cor. to 4 d.p.)
(d) Let Wi be the number of takeaway orders which are placed through the food
ordering app out of i takeaway orders received where i is a positive integer,
then Wi ~ B(i, 0.3).

P(At least 2 takeaway orders are placed through the food ordering app  the
restaurant receives fewer than 5 takeaway orders)

 P( X  2)  P(W2  2)  P( X  3)  P(W3  2)  P( X  4)  P(W4  2)

e1.5 (1.5)2 e1.5 (1.5)3


  (0.3) 
2
 [C23 (0.3) 2 (0.7)  (0.3)3 ]
2! 3!
1.5 4
e (1.5)
  [C24 (0.3) 2 (0.7) 2  C34 (0.3)3 (0.7)  (0.3) 4 ]
4!

 0.066 096 (cor. to 6 d.p.)

e1.5 (1.5)1 e1.5 (1.5)2 e1.5 (1.5)3 e1.5 (1.5)4


1.5
P( X  5)  e    
1! 2! 3! 4!
 0.981 424 (cor. to 6 d.p.)
0.066 096
 Required probability 
0.981 424
 0.067 3 (cor. to 4 d.p.)

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