Edexcel S1 2017 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2017
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeConditional probability with normal

5. Yuto works in the quality control department of a large company. The time, \(T\) minutes, it takes Yuto to analyse a sample is normally distributed with mean 18 minutes and standard deviation 5 minutes.
  1. Find the probability that Yuto takes longer than 20 minutes to analyse the next sample. (3) The company has a large store of samples analysed by Yuto with the time taken for each analysis recorded. Serena is investigating the samples that took Yuto longer than 15 minutes to analyse. She selects, at random, one of the samples that took Yuto longer than 15 minutes to analyse.
  2. Find the probability that this sample took Yuto more than 20 minutes to analyse. Serena can identify, in advance, the samples that Yuto can analyse in under 15 minutes and in future she will assign these to someone else.
  3. Estimate the median time taken by Yuto to analyse samples in future.