Cars arrive at a junction at a constant average rate of 3.2 per minute.
4(a)Poisson DistributionEasy1 mark
State a condition for the number of cars arriving per minute to have a Poisson distribution.
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4(b)Poisson DistributionMedium3 marks
It is now given that the number of cars arriving per minute has the distribution Po(3.2).
Find the probability that at least 4 cars arrive during a randomly chosen 3-minute period.
λ for a 3-minute period
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4(c)Poisson DistributionMedium2 marks
Given that at least 4 cars arrive during a particular randomly chosen 3-minute period, find the probability that exactly 5 cars arrive during this period.
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4(d)Normal Distribution Normal ApproximationsHard5 marks
Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that more than 60 cars arrive during a randomly chosen 20-minute period.