OCR MEI S1 2012 June — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicHypergeometric Distribution
TypeAt least one of each type

1 At a garden centre there is a box containing 50 hyacinth bulbs. Of these, 30 will produce a blue flower and the remaining 20 will produce a red flower. Unfortunately they have become mixed together so that it is not known which of the bulbs will produce a blue flower and which will produce a red flower. Karen buys 3 of these bulbs.
  1. Find the probability that all 3 of these bulbs will produce blue flowers.
  2. Find the probability that Karen will have at least one flower of each colour from her 3 bulbs.