OCR Further Statistics AS 2021 November — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics AS (Further Statistics AS)
Year2021
SessionNovember
TopicPermutations & Arrangements
TypeAlternating pattern probability

7 The 20 members of a club consist of 10 Town members and 10 Country members.
  1. All 20 members are arranged randomly in a straight line. Determine the probability that the Town members and the Country members alternate.
  2. Ten members of the club are chosen at random. Show that the probability that the number of Town members chosen is no more than \(r\), where \(0 \leqslant r \leqslant 10\), is given by
    \(\frac { 1 } { \mathrm {~N} } \sum _ { \mathrm { i } = 0 } ^ { \mathrm { r } } \left( { } ^ { 10 } \mathrm { C } _ { \mathrm { i } } \right) ^ { 2 }\)
    where \(N\) is an integer to be determined.