OCR S1 2005 January — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2005
SessionJanuary
TopicGeometric Distribution
TypeMean/expectation of geometric distribution

5 On average 1 in 20 members of the population of this country has a particular DNA feature. Members of the population are selected at random until one is found who has this feature.
  1. Find the probability that the first person to have this feature is
    (a) the sixth person selected,
    (b) not among the first 10 people selected.
  2. Find the expected number of people selected.