Edexcel S1 Specimen — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
SessionSpecimen
TopicNormal Distribution
TypePercentages or proportions given

  1. (a) Explain what you understand by a statistical model.
    (2)
    (b) Write down a random variable which could be modelled by
    1. a discrete uniform distribution,
    2. a normal distribution.
    3. A group of students believes that the time taken to travel to college, \(T\) minutes, can be assumed to be normally distributed. Within the college \(5 \%\) of students take at least 55 minutes to travel to college and \(0.1 \%\) take less than 10 minutes.
    Find the mean and standard deviation of \(T\).