Edexcel S2 2003 January — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2003
SessionJanuary
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeIndependent binomial samples with compound probability

5. A farmer noticed that some of the eggs laid by his hens had double yolks. He estimated the probability of this happening to be 0.05 . Eggs are packed in boxes of 12 . Find the probability that in a box, the number of eggs with double yolks will be
  1. exactly one,
  2. more than three. A customer bought three boxes.
  3. Find the probability that only 2 of the boxes contained exactly 1 egg with a double yolk. The farmer delivered 10 boxes to a local shop.
  4. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that the delivery contained at least 9 eggs with double yolks. The weight of an individual egg can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean 65 g and standard deviation 2.4 g .
  5. Find the probability that a randomly chosen egg weighs more than 68 g .