OCR S1 2010 June — Question 8

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2010
SessionJune
TopicGeometric Distribution
TypeFirst success on specific trial

8 The proportion of people who watch West Street on television is \(30 \%\). A market researcher interviews people at random in order to contact viewers of West Street. Each day she has to contact a certain number of viewers of West Street.
  1. Near the end of one day she finds that she needs to contact just one more viewer of West Street. Find the probability that the number of further interviews required is
    (a) 4 ,