3 The weights of Braeburn apples on display in a supermarket, measured in grams, are Normally distributed with mean 210.5 and standard deviation 15.2.
- Find the probability that a randomly selected apple weighs at least 220 grams.
- These apples are sold in packs of 3. You may assume that the weights of apples in each pack are independent. Find the probability that all 3 of the apples in a randomly selected pack weigh at least 220 grams.
- 100 packs are selected at random.
(A) State the exact distribution of the number of these 100 packs in which all 3 apples weigh at least 220 grams.
(B) Use a suitable approximating distribution to find the probability that in at most one of these packs all 3 apples weigh at least 220 grams.
(C) Explain why this approximating distribution is suitable. - The supermarket also sells Cox's Orange Pippin apples. The weights of these apples, measured in grams, are Normally distributed with mean 185 and standard deviation \(\sigma\).
(A) Given that \(10 \%\) of randomly selected Cox's Orange Pippin apples weigh less than 170 grams, calculate the value of \(\sigma\).
(B) Sketch the distributions of the weights of both types of apple on a single diagram.