Edexcel S1 2018 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeExpected frequency with unknown parameter

6. The waiting time, \(L\) minutes, to see a doctor at a health centre is normally distributed with \(L \sim \mathrm {~N} \left( \mu , \sigma ^ { 2 } \right)\). Given that \(\mathrm { P } ( L < 15 ) = 0.9\) and \(\mathrm { P } ( L < 5 ) = 0.05\)
  1. find the value of \(\mu\) and the value of \(\sigma\). There are 23 people waiting to see a doctor at the health centre.
  2. Determine the expected number of these people who will have a waiting time of more than 12 minutes.