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∼Po(0.2)
P(X⩾ (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]