Edexcel S2 Specimen — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeE(X) and Var(X) with probability calculations

2. Bhim and Joe play each other at badminton and for each game, independently of all others, the probability that Bhim loses is 0.2 Find the probability that, in 9 games, Bhim loses
  1. exactly 3 of the games,
  2. fewer than half of the games. Bhim attends coaching sessions for 2 months. After completing the coaching, the probability that he loses each game, independently of all others, is 0.05 Bhim and Joe agree to play a further 60 games.
  3. Calculate the mean and variance for the number of these 60 games that Bhim loses.
  4. Using a suitable approximation calculate the probability that Bhim loses more than 4 games.