Date | November 2017 | Marks available | 4 | Reference code | 17N.2.hl.TZ0.6 |
Level | HL only | Paper | 2 | Time zone | TZ0 |
Command term | Find | Question number | 6 | Adapted from | N/A |
Question
The number of bananas that Lucca eats during any particular day follows a Poisson distribution with mean 0.2.
Find the probability that Lucca eats at least one banana in a particular day.
Find the expected number of weeks in the year in which Lucca eats no bananas.
Markscheme
let \(X\) be the number of bananas eaten in one day
\(X \sim {\text{Po}}(0.2)\)
\({\text{P}}(X \geqslant 1) = 1 - {\text{P}}(X = 0)\) (M1)
\( = 0.181{\text{ }}( = 1 - {{\text{e}}^{ - 0.2}})\) A1
[2 marks]
EITHER
let \(Y\) be the number of bananas eaten in one week
\({\text{Y}} \sim {\text{Po}}(1.4)\) (A1)
\({\text{P}}(Y = 0) = 0.246596 \ldots {\text{ }}( = {{\text{e}}^{ - 1.4}})\) (A1)
OR
let \(Z\) be the number of days in one week at least one banana is eaten
\(Z \sim {\text{B}}(7,{\text{ }}0.181 \ldots )\) (A1)
\({\text{P}}(Z = 0) = 0.246596 \ldots \) (A1)
THEN
\(52 \times 0.246596 \ldots \) (M1)
\( = 12.8{\text{ }}( = 52{{\text{e}}^{ - 1.4}})\) A1
[4 marks]