Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012
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Oh never mind, it was cumulative and I was trying to do point. Flail.(Original post by Matthew692692)
Ask Syntax error, they have loads!
I'm stuck on a question! Can anyone help me? It Q6)i) June 2007! It doesn't make sense to me!
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012There seems to be a common pattern emerging among people who sat that exam... they all hated it(Original post by etothepii)
can't imagine any exam going worse than that FP2 paper, tbh
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012If the A* pupils hated it, I cannot imagine what sort of student liked that exam(Original post by wibletg)
There seems to be a common pattern emerging among people who sat that exam... they all hated it
Unfortunately, I'm the only one doing FM from my school so I was under the impression that I'd done extremely badly until I saw the rage on TSR
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012The only one(Original post by etothepii)
If the A* pupils hated it, I cannot imagine what sort of student liked that exam Unfortunately, I'm the only one doing FM from my school so I was under the impression that I'd done extremely badly until I saw the rage on TSR
To be fair, our year is unusual in that 10 people are taking it to A2 - last year there were only 2
Yeah, there was quite a bit of nerd rage. It should be interesting to see the boundaries in August
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012I don't think we've ever had more than 5-6 people take it, even at AS.(Original post by wibletg)
The only one
To be fair, our year is unusual in that 10 people are taking it to A2 - last year there were only 2
Yeah, there was quite a bit of nerd rage. It should be interesting to see the boundaries in August
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012No, only one person is doing maths at Uni(Original post by etothepii)
I don't think we've ever had more than 5-6 people take it, even at AS.
Doing Maths at uni, I'm guessing?
Our school focuses more on Mechanics modules because the FM teacher did Physics as a degree, so we've got 5 engineers, 1 computer scientist, someone doing economics, a physicist and the only person doing maths
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 2012Oh, I see. I'd have loved to do more mechanics modules but one of our two FM teachers did Stats so I ended up doing S1-S3, lol. tbh, S1 was the only tedious one; I found S2 and S3 slightly more interesting, especially the latter.(Original post by wibletg)
No, only one person is doing maths at Uni
Our school focuses more on Mechanics modules because the FM teacher did Physics as a degree, so we've got 5 engineers, 1 computer scientist, someone doing economics, a physicist and the only person doing maths
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Re: Stats 2 (S2) OCR (not MEI) 22nd June 20123 buttercups per cubic metre, so for m cubic metres the distribution of X, no. of buttercups, is x~Po(3m).(Original post by ellie_159)
Can anyone help me on Question 9(iv) in January 2010?
(a) Without using an approximation, find an expression for the probability that in m square metres there are at least 2 buttercups?
Thanks in advance!
At least 2, so P(X>=2)= 1-P(X=<1)
Then use the poisson formula with 3m in place of lambda and you should arrive at the expression they want.
