At 15:00 it is the end of the school day, and it is assumed that the departure of the students from school can be modelled by a Poisson distribution. On average, 24 students leave the school every minute. (e) There are 200 days in a school year. Given that Y denotes the number of days in the year that at least 700 students leave before 15:30, find (ii) P(Y > 150).

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At 15:00 it is the end of the school day, and it is assumed that the departure of the students from school can be modelled by a Poisson distribution. On average, 24 students leave the school every minute.

(e) There are 200 days in a school year. Given that Y denotes the number of days in the year that at least 700 students leave before 15:30, find

(ii) P(Y > 150).

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