Edexcel S1 2014 June — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypePercentages or proportions given

7. One event at Pentor sports day is throwing a tennis ball. The distance a child throws a tennis ball is modelled by a normal distribution with mean 32 m and standard deviation 12 m . Any child who throws the tennis ball more than 50 m is awarded a gold certificate.
  1. Show that, to 3 significant figures, 6.68\% of children are awarded a gold certificate. A silver certificate is awarded to any child who throws the tennis ball more than \(d\) metres but less than 50 m . Given that 19.1\% of the children are awarded a silver certificate,
  2. find the value of \(d\). Three children are selected at random from those who take part in the throwing a tennis ball event.
  3. Find the probability that 1 is awarded a gold certificate and 2 are awarded silver certificates. Give your answer to 2 significant figures.