A-Level MathematicsYear 2021Q2
6 2. Rowan and Alex are both check-in assistants for the same airline. The number of passengers, R, checked in by Rowan during a 30-minute period can be modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean 28 (a) Calculate P(R 23) (1) The number of passengers, A, checked in by Alex during a 30-minute period can be modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean 16, where R and A are independent. A randomly selected 30-minute period is chosen. (b) Calculate the probability that exactly 42 passengers in total are checked in by Rowan and Alex. (2) The company manager is investigating the rate at which passengers are checked in. He randomly selects 150 non-overlapping 60-minute periods and records the total number of passengers checked in by Rowan and Alex, in each of these 60-minute periods. (c) Using a Poisson approximation, find the probability that for at least 25 of these 60-minute periods Rowan and Alex check in a total of fewer than 80 passengers. (4) On a particular day, Alex complains to the manager that the check-in system is working slower than normal. To see if the complaint is valid the manager takes a random 90-minute period and finds that the total number of people Rowan checks in is 67 (d) Test, at the 5% level of significance, whether or not there is evidence that the system is working slower than normal. You should state your hypotheses and conclusion clearly and show your working. (4) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Syllabus levelAdvanced Level (A-Level)
SubjectMathematics
Official MarksVariable (2–6 marks)