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AQA A-Level Further Maths past-paper questions on SB.2 Tests for Poisson and geometric parameters, 2019–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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- June 2025, AS Paper 2 Statistics, Q7 (8 marks): Kristi set up a website for her new home business. The number of visitors per hour to the website is modelled using a Poisson distribution. During the first mon
- June 2024, Paper 3 Statistics, Q4 (6 marks): Research has shown that the mean number of volcanic eruptions on Earth each day is 20 Sandra records 162 volcanic eruptions during a period of one week. Sandra
- June 2024, AS Paper 2 Statistics, Q7 (11 marks): Over a period of time, it has been shown that the mean number of customers entering a small store is 6 per hour. The store runs a promotion, selling many produc
- June 2023, Paper 3 Statistics, Q7 (11 marks): Company A uses a machine to produce toys. The number of toys in a week that do not pass Company A’s quality checks is modelled by a Poisson distribution X with
- June 2022, AS Paper 2 Statistics, Q6 (8 marks): The number of computers sold per day by a shop can be modelled by the random variable Y where Y × Po(42) 6 (a) State the variance of Y [1 mark] 6 (b) One month
- November 2021, Paper 3 Statistics, Q8 (13 marks): A company records the number of complaints, X, that it receives over 60 months. The summarised results are X x = 102 and X (x × x)2 = 103:25 8 (a) Using this da
- November 2020, Paper 3 Statistics, Q5 (7 marks): Emily claims that the average number of runners per minute passing a shop during a long distance run is 8 Emily conducts a hypothesis test to investigate her cl
- November 2020, AS Paper 2 Statistics, Q8 (9 marks): There are two hospitals in a city. Over a period of time, the first hospital recorded an average of 20 births a day. Over the same period of time, the second ho
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