MCQs on Poisson Distribution

 


1. The 4th order central moment of poisson distribution is -
a) $\small 2\lambda^{2} + \lambda$
b) $\small 3\lambda^{2} + \lambda$
c) $\lambda$
d) None

Ans. b) $\small 3\lambda^{2} + \lambda$

2. A car hire firm has two cars which it fires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as Poisson variate with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on which neither car is used.
a) 0.256 b) 0.2231 c) 0.2561 d) 0.3211

Ans. b) 0.2231
 
3.If $X$ and $Y$ follow Poisson distribution, then what will be distribution of $X$ given $X+Y$?
a)Poisson b) Binomial c)Normal d) none of them
 
Ans: b
 
4.If $X$ follows Poisson distribution with Parameter $\lambda$, then what will be the $p(x+1)$ at $x=0$ ?
a)$\frac{\lambda}{x+1}p(0)$ b)\frac{\lambda}{\lambda+1}p(0) c)\frac{x}{x+1}p(0) d)\frac{\lambda}{\lambda+1}p(0)

Ans: a
 
5. $P(X=2)=9P(X=4)+90P(X=6)$ , Here X follows Poisson distribution. Find $\lambda$ ?
a)1b)2c)3d)4
Ans: a
 
6.If $X$ and $Y$ follows Poisson distribution individually then what will be the var of $X-2Y$, when $P(X=1)=P(X=2)$ and P(Y=2)=P(Y=3)$.
a)28 b)14 c)25 d)35
Ans: b
 
7.In a Poisson frequency distribution   frequency corresponding to 3 successes is 2/3 times frequency corresponding to 4 successes. Find the mean.
a)12 b)6 c)7 d)9
Ans: b
 
8. For Poisson distribution $\lambda$ is always 
a) Positive b) Negative c) Positive or Negative d) None of it
 
Ans: b
 
4. A manufacturer of cotter pins knows that 5% of his product is defective. If he sells cotter pins in boxes of 100 and guarantees that not more than 10 pins will be defective, what is the approximate probability that a box will fail to meet the guaranteed quality?

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5. Six coins are tossed 6,400 times. Using the Poisson distribution, find the approximate probability of getting six heads r times.

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6. In a book of 520 pages, 390 typo-graphical errors occur. Assuming Poisson law for the number of errors per page, find the probability that a random sample of 5 pages will contain no error.

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7. If $\small X_i(i=1,2,..,n)$ are independent Poisson variates with parameters $\small \lambda_i; i= 1,2,...,n$ respectively, then $\small \sum_{i=1}^{n} X_i$ is follows what ?

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