1. It is known that, on average, 2 people in 5 in a certain country are overweight.

A
random sample of 400 people is chosen. Using a suitable approximation, find
the probability that fewer than 165 people in the sample are overweight.
[5]

2. (i) The daily minimum temperature in degrees Celsius (°C) in January in

Ottawa is a random variable with distribution N (–15.1, 62.0). Find the
probability that a randomly chosen day in January in Ottawa has a
minimum temperature above 0°C.
[3]

(ii) In another city the daily minimum temperature in °C in January is a

random variable with distribution N (μ, 40.0). In this city the probability that
a randomly chosen day in January has a minimum temperature above 0°C
is 0.8888. Find the value of μ.
[3]

3. Tyre pressures on a certain type of car independently follow a normal

distribution with mean 1.9 bars and standard deviation 0.15 bars.

(i) Find the probability that all four tyres on a car of this type have pressures
between 1.82 bars and 1.92 bars.
[5]

(ii) Safety regulations state that the pressures must be between 1.9 – b bars
and 1.9 + b bars. It is known that 80% of tyres are within these safety
limits. Find the safety limits.
[3]

4. The volume of milk in millilitres in cartons is normally distributed with mean μ

and standard deviation 8. Measurements were taken of the volume in 900 of
these cartons and it was found that 225 of them contained more than 1002
millilitres.

(i) Calculate the value of μ.

[3]

(ii) Three of these 900 cartons are chosen at random. Calculate the
probability that exactly 2 of them contain more than 1002 millilitres.
[2]

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5. In a certain country the time taken for a common infection to clear up is
normally distributed with mean μ days and standard deviation 2.6 days. 25% of
these infections clear up in less than 7 days.

(i) Find the value of μ.

[4]

In another country the standard deviation of the time taken for the infection to
clear up is the same as in part (i), but the mean is 6.5 days. The time taken is
normally distributed.

(ii) Find the probability that, in a randomly chosen case from this country, the
infection takes longer than 6.2 days to clear up.
[3]

6. (i) Give an example of a variable in real life which could be modelled by a

normal distribution.
[1]

(ii) The random variable X is normally distributed with mean μ and variance
21.0. Given that P(X > 10.0) = 0.7389, find the value of μ.
[3]

(iii) If 300 observations are taken at random from the distribution in part (ii),
estimate how many of these would be greater than 22.0.
[4]

7. On a certain road 20% of the vehicles are trucks, 16% are buses and the
remainder are cars.

(i) A random sample of 11 vehicles is taken. Find the probability that fewer
than 3 are buses.
[3]

(ii) A random sample of 125 vehicles is now taken. Using a suitable

approximation, find the probability that more than 73 are cars.
[5]

8. On a production line making toys, the probability of any toy being faulty is 0.08.
A random sample of 200 toys is checked. Use a suitable approximation to find
the probability that there are at least 15 faulty toys.
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9. A die is biased so that the probability of throwing a 5 is 0.75 and the
probabilities of throwing a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 are all equal.

(i) The die is thrown three times. Find the probability that the result is a 1
followed by a 5 followed by any even number.
[3]

(ii) Find the probability that, out of 10 throws of this die, at least 8 throws
result in a 5.
[3]

(iii) The die is thrown 90 times. Using an appropriate approximation, find the
probability that a 5 is thrown more than 60 times.
[5]

10. In tests on a new type of light bulb it was found that the time they lasted
followed a normal distribution with standard deviation 40.6 hours. 10% lasted
longer than 5130 hours.

(i) Find the mean lifetime, giving your answer to the nearest hour.
[3]

(ii) Find the probability that a light bulb fails to last for 5000 hours.
[3]

(iii) A hospital buys 600 of these light bulbs. Using a suitable approximation,
find the probability that fewer than 65 light bulbs will last longer than 5130
hours.
[4]

11. The lengths of fish of a certain type have a normal distribution with mean 38 cm.
It is found that 5% of the fish are longer than 50 cm.

(i) Find the standard deviation.

[3]

(ii) When fish are chosen for sale, those shorter than 30 cm are rejected. Find
the proportion of fish rejected.
[3]

(iii) 9 fish are chosen at random. Find the probability that at least one of them
is longer than 50 cm.
[2]

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0 .0 4 6 5

X
4 .5 5 .5

The random variable X has a normal distribution with mean 4.5. It is given that
P(X > 5.5) = 0.0465 (see diagram).

(i) Find the standard deviation of X.

[3]

(ii) Find the probability that a random observation of X lies between 3.8 and
4.8.
[4]

13. On any occasion when a particular gymnast performs a certain routine, the
probability that she will perform it correctly is 0.65, independently of all other
occasions.

(i) Find the probability that she will perform the routine correctly on exactly 5
occasions out of 7.
[2]

(ii) On one day she performs the routine 50 times. Use a suitable
approximation to estimate the probability that she will perform the routine
correctly on fewer than 29 occasions.
[5]

(iii) On another day she performs the routine n times. Find the smallest value
of n for which the expected number of correct performances is at least 8.
[2]

14. A survey of adults in a certain large town found that 76% of people wore a
watch on their left wrist, 15% wore a watch on their right wrist and 9% did not wear a
watch.

(i) A random sample of 14 adults was taken. Find the probability that more
than 2 adults did not wear a watch.
[4]

(ii) A random sample of 200 adults was taken. Using a suitable

approximation, find the probability that more than 155 wore a watch on

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 their left wrist.
[5]

n for which the expected number of correct performances is at least 8.

[2]

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